Discuss any three methods by which young children acquire the meaning of words
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Joint attention: Parents encourage word learning by watching what interests their children. (2) Constraints on word names: If an unfamiliar word is heard in the presence of objects that already have names and objects that don't, the word refers to one of the objects that doesn't have a name. (3) Sentence cues: The other words in a sentence and the overall sentence structure can be helpful clues to a word's meaning.
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Regarding social phobias, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Less than one percent of all adults are affected by social phobias in a given year. b. It is common for people with social phobias to have uncomfortable physical symptoms, such as sweating, hands shaking, mental confusion, and blushing when in social situations. c. People with social phobias avoid social situations, such as eating or writing in public or using public rest rooms. d. Social phobias greatly impair a person's ability to work, attend school, or form personal relationships.
Placing or storing information in memory by creating mental representations is called:
a. processing c. elaboration b. encoding d. rehearsal
The first person to use counterconditioning to treat a phobia was probably__________
a. Rosalie Rayner b. Carl Rogers c. Mary Cover Jones d. John B. Watson
Which of the following represents a valid criticism of the social cognitive view of personality?
a. ?It is too objective and logical. b. ?It has not stimulated much research on the environmental factors involved in personality. c. ?It does not have much practical application to every day behaviors. d. ?It underemphasizes biological, emotional, and unconscious factors in personality.