The assumption for word learning in which children initially assume that words refer to other things that are similar is
a. the mutual exclusivity assumption. c. the taxonomic assumption.
b. the whole-object assumption. d. the lexicon assumption.
C
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a. ?CVA victims may not be immediately aware that anything is wrong. b. ?CVAs usually affect brain areas far from the point of origin. c. ?the gradual process of cell damage in the brain may go unnoticed for years d. ?it is impossible for patients to recover brain functions damaged by a CVA
Jerilyn believes that it is hard to plan for success because so much of what happens in the world is a result of chance factors that people have little control over. Jerilyn appears:
a. to have high self-efficacy b. to have an external locus of control c. to be low in self-monitoring d. to have an internal locus of control
Systematic desensitization procedures assume that fear is a(n) __________ response
a. conditioned or learned c. rational b. unconscious d. evolutionary
Which of the following scenario poses a serious problem when using a paired-samples t test, one-tailed?
A. The population of difference scores is approximately normal. B. The sample has less than 40 participants. C. There is a ceiling effect in the test, which is likely to make the population of difference scores highly skewed. D. Pretest and posttest scores are highly correlated with each other.