The area of the brain that becomes most active when a child hears his or her own name is the
A) area where the temporal and parietal lobes meet.
B) area where the temporal lobe and the brain stem meet.
C) area where the parietal lobe and Wernicke's area meet.
D) area where the temporal lobe and Broca's area meet.
A) area where the temporal and parietal lobes meet.
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Chris is a playground bully. He finds that he can win the admiration of his peers by acting aggressively. Chris's aggressive behavior is encouraged by
a. positive reinforcement. b. negative reinforcement. c. positive punishment. d. negative punishment.
Psychologists in which school of thought believed that thinking, learning, and perception should be studied in whole units rather than analyzing these experiences into smaller parts?
a. behaviorism b. psychoanalytic psychology c. structuralism d. Gestalt psychology
When do you know whether you're a boy or a girl?
a. between the ages of 5 and 7 b. between the ages of 2 and 3 c. when you first see opposite sex genitals d. it's never really "learned"—it's something you always know
In a study by Saffran and colleagues (1996), infants were familiarized with a continuous speech stream consisting of made-up words such as bidaku, padoti, and golabu (e.g., bidakugolabugolabupadotibidaku…)
After familiarization, Saffran and colleagues used the head-turn preference procedure to show that infants were able to tell the difference between words like "bidaku" and part-words like "kupado." Infants were able to do this because they tracked the ___ of the syllables in the language. a. frequencies b. transitional probabilities c. stress patterns d. phonotactics