The process by which new information is modified to fit existing schemas is called

a. accommodation.
b. assimilation.
c. adaptation.
d. adjustment.
e. concept formation.


b. assimilation.

Psychology

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In which condition do people show poor language comprehension, despite fluent, grammatical speech?

a. Broca's aphasia b. Wernicke's aphasia c. Williams syndrome d. Korsakoff's syndrome

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c. The observations are independent. d. The other alternatives are all assumptions of the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test.

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What does McCrae and Costa mean by introversion and extraversion? Is Subira introverted or extraverted? Find examples in the case to support your answer.

What will be an ideal response?

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