In a study tracking the first 10 words used by several hundred U.S. and Chinese (both Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking) babies, words for ________ were uttered most often.
A. social routines, important people, and nonmoving objects
B. important people, common objects, and sound effects
C. actions, social routines, and objects that move
D. familiar actions, outcomes of actions, and social terms
Answer: B
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a. experience more negative emotional reactions than heterosexual women feel after a breakup. b. experience similar kinds of emotional reactions that heterosexual women feel when they break up. c. experience few emotional reactions other than loneliness. d. seek support from family members.
Which of the following is NOT true of the successful behavior exhibited by Thorndike's cats in escaping from puzzle boxes?
a. It became more systematic with repeated trials. b. It could initially be described as trial and error learning. c. It seemed accidental during the first few trials d. It showed the occurrence of a sudden insight into the solution of the problem.
Allison dreamt that she was naked in front of her male classmates. Freud would state that the manifest content of this dream is Allison:
A) being naked in front of her male classmates. B) having desire to engage in sexual relations with her classmates. C) feeling vulnerable about a new relationship. D) being anxious about her grade in the course.
In the Brown-Peterson test, subjects read a trigram (an unpronounceable series of three letters), and are then asked to count backwards by threes from a given number. What is the purpose of having the subjects count backward?
A) To test if the subject can multitask. B) To test if they can remember how to subtract. C) To interfere with the subject's ability to rehearse the trigram. D) To determine if numerical and phonetic memories are stored in different areas of the brain.