According to her parents, Tina was a "healthy, happy baby" for the first year of her life. She
was curious and sociable, held her arms out to be picked up, and babbled very often. Shortly
after her first birthday, things suddenly changed.
At age 2, Tina rarely makes a sound and
spends most of her time sitting and wringing her hands. Although her eyes follow her parents
when they are in the same room as her, she no longer makes an effort to get their attention or
to interact with them. From this description, which of the following disorders is Tina most
likely to have:
a. Autism
b. Asperger's disorder
c. Rett's syndrome
d. Childhood disintegrative disorder
e. The child's symptoms fit several of the above conditions equally well.
C
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a. ?consciousness b. ?immediate experiences c. ?mediate experiences d. ?consciousness and behavior e. ?behavior
Participants in the Wason selection task, often only affirm the positive version of the propositional rule. This is a demonstration of what heuristic?
a. confirmation bias b. illusory correlation c. availability d. representativeness
At age 6 the average child knows about ____ words, but by age 10 or 11 this sum has increased fourfold, to about ____
a. 1,000; 4,000 b. 5,000; 20,000 c. 10,000; 40,000 d. 15,000; 60,000
The fact that children with higher IQ scores tend to come from homes that provide them with cognitively challenging materials such as puzzles and books BEST supports the theory that:
A. intelligence and poverty are highly positively correlated events. B. environmental factors impact intelligence. C. genes determine intelligence. D. identical twins are more intellectually similar than any random set of siblings.