An infant increases its sucking rate when it hears a sound. After repetitions of that sound, the sucking rate declines. What term applies to this decrease of response?
a. Sensitization
b. Habituation
c. Dishabituation
d. Confabulation
b
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According to the principle of encoding specificity, what would help you remember something always? a. Study at the same place and time of day at the test. b. Study in a wide variety of locations and times of day. c. Repeat the material forward and then backward
d. Do all your studying in one long session.
The research by Snarey, Son, Kuehne, Hauser, and Vaillant which focused on the issue of generativity in middle adulthood found that:
a. a sense of generativity can only be attained when the husband is biologically the father of his child b. a sense of generativity can be achieved even if the husband is not the biological father of the child c. a sense of generativity can be achieved by men if they treat nonhuman objects (for example, car or pets) as their "babies" d. a sense of generativity can be achieved by infertile women if they become preoccupied with body building and forget their desires to have a child
According to Kohlberg, in the conventional level of moral reasoning, children base moral judgments on the consequences of behavior
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Describe how children learn the three components of emergent literacy: phonological awareness, letter awareness and oral language skills
What will be an ideal response?