By 10 months of age, Alan has a vocabulary of a dozen words. B. F. Skinner would have attributed Alan's rapid speech development mainly to his
unusually high I.Q.
unusual language-acquisition talent.
parents' talking to him frequently.
rapid physical development.
parents' talking to him frequently.
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a. Because they experience a reduction in neurofibrillary tangles, which inhibits the ability of neurons to send messages at a maximally efficient speed. b. Because they experience a reduction in the ability of the corpus callosum to send messages from one cerebral hemisphere to the other. c. Because they experience more neuronal death in the diencephalon (the thalamus and hypothalamus), which hinders these cognitive skills. d. Because they show greater activation of the prefrontal cortex on easier tasks, thus "using up" their brain power before they ascend to more difficult tasks.
Considering the fortress and the radiation problems together, the fortress problem represents the _________________ problem.
A. source B. target C. exemplar D. prototype
How should we interpret the correlation between schizophrenia and birth complications? a. Birth complications clearly cause schizophrenia in the mother
b. Birth complications clearly lead to the later development of schizophrenia in the child. c. Infants who will later develop schizophrenia are difficult to carry and deliver. d. Birth complications may trigger schizophrenia, or an infant who is vulnerable to schizophrenia may be difficult to carry and deliver, or both.
For her dissertation, Emily is interested in examining the effects of maternal alcohol consumption on the behavior of newborn infants. For ethical reasons, Emily cannot manipulate the amount of alcohol consumed by pregnant mothers; therefore, she should
a. conduct an experiment with randomly selected mothers and their infants. b. abandon this research topic and choose some other topic to investigate. c. conduct a correlational study with alcoholic mothers and their infants. d. conduct a single-subject study with one volunteer mother and her infant.