When middle-school-age children understand the rules of language that indicate how words and phrases can be combined to form sentences, this is called understanding
a) metalinguistic skills.
b) metacognition.
c) syntax.
d) phonemes.
c
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a. Precommitment b. Time spent online c. Situational factors d. Decreased self-disclosure
Which statement about clinical and statistical significance is accurate? a. It's more common for study findings to show clinical significance than statistical significance. b. Large samples can produce statistical significance without showing clinical significance
c. Statistical significance has greater practical value than clinical significance. d. If there is statistical significance, we can assume there is clinical significance.
Tomeka is a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with clients who have phobias. One of the basic assumptions she makes about people's fears of spiders and snakes is that such fears can be adaptive, since spiders and snakes are sometimes dangerous. Tomeka's assumption best fits the __________ approach to psychology.
A. humanistic B. evolutionary C. psychodynamic D. cognitive
In Harlow's studies with young monkeys, the monkeys were exposed to a wire mother with a bottle and a cloth mother without a bottle. The young monkeys spent their non-feeding time:
a. with the wire mother. b. with both mothers equally. c. with the cloth mother. d. away from both mothers.