Identify a criticism about the linguistic-relativity hypothesis
A) Infants display considerable intelligence before they have learned to speak.
B) Adults use only actions and gestures as units of thought.
C) A language's vocabulary suggests the range of its speakers' nonessential concepts.
D) A language's vocabulary suggests the range of its speakers' cognitive limits.
A
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What did Alfred Kinsey believe regarding sexuality?
A. Premarital sex is fundamentally destructive to society. B. Sexual orientation is too sensitive to be studied. C. Sexual orientation exists on a continuum. D. Sexual orientation is an either/or situation.
Which of the following best describes the process by which developing axons find their general target areas?
a. completely random growth b. shape attraction c. electrical attraction d. chemical attraction
The social learning theory of aggression explains that
a. watching aggressive models reduces tension and lowers aggressiveness. b. people learn to be aggressive by watching aggressive models. c. the innate patterns of behavior are inhibited by watching aggressive models. d. watching aggressive models leads to frustrated desires, which in turn, leads to aggressive acts.
The form of behavioral therapy in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an unpleasant stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior is called
a. token economy b. operant conditioning c. aversion therapy d. participant modeling e. age regression therapy