Frank is 14 months old and uses only bottle, no, up, bye-bye, mama and dada when he talks. However, when the family is on their way to visit Frank's grandmother, and his mother tells Frank to get his red tiger from the bedroom and bring it with him, Frank quickly runs to get the tiger. This episode demonstrates that toddlers:
a. can understand more words than they can actually produce
b. can produce more words than they can actually understand
c. have difficulty pronouncing phonemes they have never heard
d. tend to overgeneralize irregular verbs and nouns
A
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a. initiative. b. trust. c. shame and doubt. d. autonomy. e. mistrust.
Clients sometimes prefer computerized interviews because ______
a. they are more likely to be covered by managed care insurance b. the clients feel less embarrassed than with a human interviewer c. they can more easily trick the computer than they can trick human interviewers d. they can discuss the responses with friends or relatives since they complete them at home
The purpose of the Tuskegee syphilis study was to ________.
A. test new drugs in the treatment of syphilis B. create a syphilis epidemic and observe the rates of transmission among Blacks C. attempt to eradicate the disease D. determine if there were racial differences in the developmental course of syphilis
Mrs. Hartley asked her first graders to draw a map of their classroom using their memory. The students' cognitive maps will probably ________.
A. have an accurate arrangement B. include landmarks C. incorporate map symbols with nonliteral meanings D. depict an organized route of travel