Which research approach requires subjects to recall the past?
a. Reconstructive
b. Repressed
c. Retroactive
d. Retrospective
d. Retrospective
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Simon showed grammatical mastery for the rules of American Sign Language, even though his teachers (his parents and their friends) did not. This lends support for the idea that
a. there is no sensitive period for learning language. b. ASL cannot be taught to children after the age of 9. c. the tendency to acquire language is inborn. d. a child can learn grammatically incorrect ASL, even if the parents model correct usage.
Individuals who have an exaggerated sense of entitlement and attempt to be the focus of attention may have a(n):
a. narcissistic personality disorder b. antisocial personality disorder c. borderline personality disorder d. paranoid personality disorder
Which of the following has NOT been offered as an explanation for infantile amnesia?
A) Infants' original early memories are encoded as physical actions, and these action memories are highly resistant to reconstruction efforts later in life. B) Infants have not yet developed a stable sense of self and therefore information in their early memories is likely to be disorganized and difficult to retrieve in later life. C) The manner in which infants encode memories may not match the manner in which they are asked to retrieve the memories when they are older. D) The degree of frontal lobe development in infancy may make it possible for infants to remember actions, but not be able to describe these memories using words in later life.
Contiguity is the tendency to perceive __________.
A. objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping B. things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern C. two things that happen close together in time as being related D. objects that are in a common area or region as being in a group