Studies of nonhuman language abilities call attention to the ____
a. ability of many species to learn language
b. close relationship between language and classical conditioning
c. difficulty of defining language
d. close relationship between language and brain size
c
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a. his ordering of words within sentences and phrases b. his pronunciation c. his vocabulary d. his spelling e. his usage of the same word to express different meanings
Compared with the general male population, the population of men with the 47,XYY genotype are more likely to show a. higher rates of violent crime. b. lower rates of violent crime
c. higher rates of property crime. d. lower rates of property crime.
Psychoactive medications (drugs that impact our thoughts, emotions, and behavior) usually work as either agonists or antagonists for various neurotransmitters. Explain both how an agonist and an antagonist operate on neurotransmitters. Explain, also, the process of reuptake inhibition and the effect it has on a neurotransmitter.
What will be an ideal response?
You are ready to begin collecting data for an experiment. You planned to randomly assign
students from your university to one of two groups and then administer an IV to one of the groups. However, your research partner, without your knowledge, simply placed all students from one class into the experimental group, and all students from another class into the control group. Your advisor tells you it will now be hard to make cause-and-effect conclusions. Why? A) The students should have provided informed consent first. B) The students were not randomly assigned to the two groups. C) Only one group received the IV. D) The students were not asked which group they wanted to be in.