A little girl says, "Daddy door." To understand the meaning of this two-word utterance, the listener must
a. know who the little girl is.
b. know the context in which the words were spoken.
c. be familiar with Slobin's theory of language-making capacity.
d. be the little girl's daddy.
Answer: b. know the context in which the words were spoken.
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a. intelligent people are more likely to suffer from severe forms of abnormality. b. psychological disorders appear with equal frequency in all cultures studied. c. wealthy people rarely suffer psychological disorders. d. severe disorders such as schizophrenia and depression are more prevalent in impoverished and otherwise disadvantaged groups. e. severe disorders such as schizophrenia and depression are more prevalent in wealthy, industrialized nations.
Rogers referred to the difference between the real and ideal perceptions of the self as
a. discrepancy. b. actualization. c. incongruence. d. irrationality. e. broken unity.
Which of the following is true of emerging adults' political beliefs?
a. Unlike their counterparts in Canada or Western Europe, emerging adults' political participation is very low in the United States. b. Emerging adults tend to see the activities of political parties as highly relevant to their lives. c. Emerging adults tend to be skeptical of the motivations of politicians. d. Emerging adults tend to have higher conventional political participation compared to previous generations of young people.
Research on repeated exposure to violence has shown that
a. it desensitizes observers to the implications of suffering. b. it has little or no effect on reactions to later, real-life violence. c. emotional arousal, not the content of the aggression, is the most important variable determining reactions to violence. d. None of these answers are correct.