The elementary school student who eats glue is considered a humorous cliché. If such a student developed digestive disorders or required hospitalization as a result of eating glue, however, he or she might be diagnosed with ______.
a. avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
b. bulimia nervosa
c. rumination disorder
d. pica
Ans: D
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a. positive symptoms. b. negative symptoms. c. aberrant symptoms. d. hallucinatory symptoms.
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A. Children need to be able to sense differences (sensory memory) in objects in order to conserve. B. Numerical conservation is associated with the development of working memory. C. Conservation ability involves information stored in long-term memory. D. Children use metacognitive strategies to solve conservation problems, which are a part of information processing.
A change in performance on a task that is caused by the mere presence of others is called
a. the mere exposure effect. b. social facilitation. c. social influence. d. compliance. e. the bystander effect.