Nine-year-old Kimberly is presented with a list of words to memorize. She groups the words by common features. For instance, she groups the words "dog," "cat," and "horse" as animals
What strategy does she use to help her remember the list?
a. organization
b. mental imagery
c. scripts
d. semantic elaboration
a
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A child says "doggy" as a way of telling her mother that she sees a dog. This is an example of
a. a morpheme. b. a holophrase. c. telegraphic speech. d. mean length of utterance.
Research conducted with pregnant rhesus monkeys suggests that . . .
a. Stressful experiences of the mother late in pregnancy have adverse effects on her offspring b. Pregnant female rhesus monkeys are immune to stress c. The offspring of stressed pregnant rhesus mothers were more hardy than controls d. None of the above
Which of the following are you likely to hear from an 11-year-old answering the question, "What is a friend?"
a. "Someone you can have fun with." b. "Someone who has better toys than you do." c. "Someone who is nice to you." d. "Someone you can do something with."
Which of the following would be a phenomenological approach to the study of personality?
a. emphasize subject's feelings b. emphasize subject's thoughts c. emphasize the meaning that people ascribe to events, not simply the objective events themselves d. attempt to understand an individual in his or her fullness, rather than only selected aspects of the person relevant to a small number of traits or other dimensions e. all of the above