Efforts to teach language to nonhuman primates __________
A) prove that, with appropriate training, any animal can acquire a vocabulary of several dozen symbols
B) show that, after extensive training, chimpanzees using sign language can produce complex sentences
C) have been completely unsuccessful because animals cannot learn even basic language
D) show that the ability to master a grammatically complex language system is unique to humans
Answer: D
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a. Martina: "The research suggests that teachers should encourage metacomprehension skills, beginning in first grade." b. Johnny: "If students reach college without learning metacomprehension skills, it's probably too late for them to master these techniques." c. Souren: "Educators are now developing programs to teach metacomprehension skills to students before they reach high school. d. Suzanne: "The research suggests that children already know metacomprehension skills, if they initially learned to read using the phonics method."
Which passive strategy is intended to let enemies pass by?
A. fight B. flight C. freeze D. tend and befriend
The "amazing similarities" of identical twins may be a result of
a. the confirmation bias. b. deliberate deceit by the twins. c. deliberate deceit by the researchers. d. the Barnum effect.
The existence of phonetic boundaries _____
A) ?is currently debated among speech perception researchers B) ?only occurs at VOTs of greater than 250 ms C) ?has been demonstrated using discrimination experiments D) ?shows that categorical perception does not occur in speech perception