Preschoolers acquire vocabulary at a rate of nearly one new word every 2 hours, 24 hours a day. They manage this feat through a process known as ___________, in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter
a. rapid speech c. speech mapping
b. fast mapping d. conservation
b
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Maya owes the credit card company $20,000, her adjustable rate mortgage has just gone up, and she has been out of work for 3 months. Today her husband of 15 years just told her he was having an affair and wants a divorce. With that news, she collapsed and had to be taken to the emergency room. According to Hans Selye, Maya is in the ______ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
a. alarm b. resistance c. appraisal d. exhaustion
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.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder afflicts about ______ percent of all school children
a. one to five c. three to five b. three to seven d. seven to ten
A debt crisis had a major impact on the citizens of Greece; half of its young people were out of work, depriving them of their need for __________.
A. autonomy B. relatedness C. competence D. cohesiveness