The information-processing approach views the human mind as a ________.
A. product of socially mediated processes
B. combination of the id, ego, and superego
C. system of genetically programmed behaviors and processes
D. symbol-manipulating system through which information flows
Answer: D
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A. before 1 month B. by about 6 months C. by about 10 months D. by about one year
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A) The experts accurately predicted that about 45 percent of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock. B) The experts accurately predicted that about 25 percent of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock. C) The experts greatly underestimated how many participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock. D) The experts greatly overestimated how many participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.
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a. The frequency of parental speech is not related to the size of a child's vocabulary. b. Naming objects that are the focus of a child's attention is not related to word learning. c. Children who are passively exposed to television shows, such as cartoons have larger vocabularies than other children. d. Questioning children while reading to them forces them to identify the meanings of new words.
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(a) it allows them to persist at difficult tasks (b) it protects them from accidents in which they might be injured (c) it is highly correlated with fewer psychological problems later in life (d) they have parents who protect them from risks