Which of the following has the greatest effect on how fast a child acquires language?
a. How much time the child spends watching television
b. How much time the parents spend talking with the child
c. How often the child hears other children talk
d. Maturation
d
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Your text makes all but which of the following suggestions for dealing with anger?
a. engage in competing responses b. learn to express positive feelings c. increase your expectations of others d. become aware of your emotional reactions in anger-provoking situations e. congratulate yourself for responding assertively rather than aggressively
What is an adaptation of the short-term memory model that involves the active manipulation of multiple types of information simultaneously?
a. ?restorative memory b. ?declarative memory c. ?autobiographical memory d. ?working memory
Where CA represents chronological age and MA the mental age, the Stanford-Binet calculational formula for the child's IQ is
a. IQ = 100(CA) + MA. b. IQ = (CA ? MA)100 c. IQ = MA/CA ? 100. d. IQ = (father's IQ) + (mother's IQ)/2.
The more intelligent a person is the higher grades he or she receives in school. Most likely, this finding comes from which type of research?
a) case study b) epidemiology c) correlational study d) experiment