The sentence "John put the ice cream in the _____" creates an expectation for a particular word. This is an example of
a. an ambiguous sentence. c. a low-constraint sentence.
b. a transformational sentence. d. a high-constraint sentence.
D
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A new variant of ________ may be linked to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow disease."
a. Huntington's disease b. Pick's disease c. Alzheimer's disease d. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
Judy DeLoache found that three-year-olds were better than two-year-olds at using a scale model of a room to help locate a hidden toy in the real room. After conducting a memory test in which the children had to go back to the scale model to find the toy there, DeLoache concluded that
a. memory problems for the two-year-olds provided a sufficient explanation of her findings. b. the three-year-olds had better mental representational ability than the two-year-olds. c. the three-year-olds were better planners than the two-year-olds. d. the three-year-olds had longer attention spans than the two-year-olds.
Tim yells at his daughter Allison for soiling her pants. He also threatens to spank her if she ever does it again. Next week, she soils her pants again. According to studies on punishment, why did Tim's approach fail?
a. The threat was a reinforcer. b. The punishment did not tell her how to change her behavior. c. Allison wasn't punished immediately. d. Yelling is not a form of punishment.
Samuel teaches his son to serve a tennis ball so the opponent cannot return it. However, his son Jacob appears to not benefit from the advice or understand what is going on. Jacob is best classified as exhibiting a(n)
A. mediation deficiency. B. utilization deficiency. C. production deficiency. D. A-B error.