Little Aleka's speech consists primarily of nouns used to name things in the environment. Language researchers call this __________ language

A) expressive
B) syntactic
C) phonological
D) referential


D

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Much research suggests that people's attitudes are not predictive of their behaviors. However, in some cases, people's attitudes ARE highly predictive of their behaviors. Identify at least three factors that increase attitude-behavior consistency

What will be an ideal response?

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An individual with inflexible, longstanding, and maladaptive traits that cause significantly impaired functioning in one's personal and social life would be diagnosed with a:

A. somatoform disorder B. schizophrenic disorder C. personality disorder D. conversion disorder

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Roberto is an infant who is described as having a difficult temperament. His father is insensitive, coercive, and also difficult in temperament. What can we predict Roberto's developmental outcome will be?

A. Roberto will most likely have behavioral problems and adjustment difficulties that worsen with age, even into early adolescence. B. Roberto will become less extreme in his behavioral tendencies because babies with difficult temperaments become less extreme with age. C. Babies with difficult temperaments tend to be unpredictable, so we cannot accurately predict what Roberto will be like as he ages. D. Roberto will be more likely to get ill as he gets older because difficult temperaments wear down a person's immune system.

Psychology

Note the following sequence of events: emotional stimulus * thalamus * simultaneous physiological arousal and emotional experience. This order of occurrences summarizes the __________ theory of emotion.

A. James-Lange B. Cannon-Bard C. activation D. jukebox

Psychology