Compared to monolingual children, those who are multilingual ________
a. have more problems detecting mistakes in grammar
b. score lower on general measures of cognitive ability
c. have poorer metalinguistic skills
d. have better metalinguistic skills
Answer: d. have better metalinguistic skills
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A. awareness of personal traits as abstractions B. looking at various components of the self in isolation C. considering only desirable traits D. being unaware of the views of others
Among children, the most commonly diagnosed disorders are __________.
A. anxiety disorders B. psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia C. depression and phobic conditions D. obsessive-compulsive disorder and conduct disorder
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a. stimulus class b. S-delta c. reinforcer d. discriminative stimulus
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a. ?calculate a correlation coefficient b. ?examine the medians c. ?conduct a t test d. ?calculate percentiles