Berko's classic study in which she showed children a nonsense object labeled a "wug" and then presented the child with a picture of two of these objects to see how the child would supply the plural form of "wug" demonstrated that preschool
a. children's use of grammatical morphemes is based on rules.
b. children do not use inflection.
c. children's language is not based on rules.
d. children acquire a rule for using "un + verb" to reverse or stop the action of a verb.
a
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a. an inferiority complex. b. repression. c. reaction formation. d. fixation. e. regression.
A relatively new field of research, defined as "the analysis of the human mind as a collection of evolved mechanisms, the contexts that activate those mechanisms and the behavior generated by those mechanisms" is known as:
a. cognitive neuroscience b. evolutionary psychology c. biological psychology d. positive psychology
Joshua, who is 19 years old, can't seem to get to sleep until about 2 a.m. and then struggles to get up on time in order to attend morning classes. It is most likely that Joshua a. has always been an "owl" and will continue this pattern throughout his adulthood
b. is currently an owl, but may or may not change to another pattern during his 20s. c. might not have been an owl previously, but will now maintain this pattern for the rest of his life. d. has been an owl up to young adulthood, but will change to a new pattern later in his 20s.
Preterm birth is a birth
A) before 37 weeks gestation. B) more than three weeks before the expected due date. C) Both A and B are used to classify a birth as "preterm." D) Neither A nor B are correct classifications of a "preterm" birth.