Clarke-Stewart and Beck (1999) found that the quality of stories retold by children was related to:
a. the age of the child.
b. the sex of the child.
c. the scaffolding strategies used by their mothers.
d. none of these
C
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a. Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context. b. People's experience of the world is highly subjective. c. Behavior is determined by multiple causes. d. Behavior is shaped by cultural heritage.
Suppose that a group of researchers would like to explore how we perceive objects in the real world, rather than just in a laboratory. This approach emphasizes
a. a well-controlled design. b. the viewer-centered approach. c. holistic recognition. d. ecological validity.
Which of the following is not a reasonable criticism of research attempting to demonstrate language learning with nonhuman primates?
a. ?The animals' vocabularies are much less extensive than normal two- to three-year-old human children. b. ?The animals' sentences are much less complicated than those of human children. c. ?Judgments of what the animals are "saying" may be contaminated by experimenter bias. d. ?The animals don't have a language acquisition device, so they can't really be learning language.
To control for the Hawthorne effect, you need:
a. more than one observer. b. a control group that is not given special attention. c. a control group that is given special treatment but does not get the experimental treatment. d. a placebo group.