What is the foreign language effect?
a) The challenges faced in one's primary language due to the difficulty in speaking a foreign language
b) A temporary decline in the thinking ability of people who are using a foreign language in which they are less proficient than their native tongue
c) A superficial cognitive retardation due to the concomitant confusion of multilingualism
d) The shift in the thinking in one's primary language due to the effects of speaking a foreign language
b
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What will be an ideal response?
Because their symptoms are severe, chronic, long-standing, and associated with intense dysfunction, distress, and impairment, are among the most difficult mental disorders to treat
a. anxiety disorders b. compulsive disorders c. personality disorders d. depressive disorders
The ability to perform higher-order cognitive tasks such as reasoning, as well as scores on intelligence tests, has been related to the:
a. processing of memories in the auditory rather than the visual areas of the brain b. ability to bypass short-term memory c. duration of sensory memory d. ability to keep multiple things available in short-term memory
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a. adult-directed; child-directed c. intellectual; social b. child-directed; adult-directed d. social; intellectual