The person next to you asks you a question that can have two different meanings. Psychologists who study language would say that in order to respond, you need more information about the
a. sentence meaning.
b. speaker's meaning.
c. audience design and sentence meaning.
d. person who is asking you the question.
Answer: b. speaker's meaning.
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One possible explanation for the failure of school desegregation to promote better racial relations is that it was
a. a simplistic idea with no chance of working. b. carried out on too large a scale. c. often carried out without supportive social norms. d. a strategy that provided too much racial contact.
Research on handedness demonstrates that __________
A) most left-handers have no developmental problems B) right-handedness is associated with prematurity C) there is little cultural variation in rates of left-handedness D) right-handed children are more likely to be mathematically talented
The z score corresponding to a raw score of 120 is _________
a. 1.2 b. 2.0 c. 1.0 d. impossible to compute from the information given
Who was the founder of humanistic psychology?
A) B. F. Skinner B) Abraham Maslow C) Carl Jung D)John B. Watson