Chomsky proposed that

a. reinforcement is needed for normal language development.
b. language arises from unknown supernatural influences.
c. there is an inborn linguistic processor for language.
d. language develops via imitation and social interaction.


C

Psychology

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Natasha finds that men speak more often in the classroom than do women, and that this is true both when they are assigned to sit in the front of the room and the back of the room. Natasha's study has found a statistically significant effect for

a. the independent variable she manipulated. b. a subject variable. c. the conceptual variable. d. the experimental but not the correlational variable.

Psychology

One of the key properties of the ___________ approach is that a specific concept is represented by activity that is distributed over many units in the network.

A. semantic network B. hierarchical C. spreading activation D. connectionist

Psychology

While Keilly was hypnotized, he vividly recalled events from his first birthday party. However, when the events that he described were compared with an actual video from his birthday party, most of the things he described did not happen. Keilly's inaccuracy in recall lends support to the view that hypnosis:

a. causes people to act out a social role b. is the same as REM-sleep c. creates a dissociation in conscious awareness d. is the same as slow-wave sleep

Psychology

Our sleeping-waking cycle follows a(n) __________ rhythm

A) infradian B) circadian C) diurnal D) ultradian

Psychology