Chomsky asserts that humans have an inborn mechanism for mastering language. He calls this the
a. executive grammar governor.
b. inborn language processor.
c. language acquisition device.
d. programmed language center.
c
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When hearing one word helps you think of another word, what do we call that tendency?
a. Availability heuristic b. The framing effect c. Attentional blink d. Priming
An environmental psychologist studies the effects of proximity to an elevated train line on school performance in children by comparing a group of children who live within one city block of an elevated train line to a matched sample of children from the same school who live at least ten blocks away from the train line on a standardized test of reading comprehension. This is an example of
a. a within-subjects design. b. a correlational study. c. a quasi-experiment. d. an observational study.
An effective memory strategy to sort the items into groups during a study phase and to recall them according to their category membership is called
a. classification. c. clustering. b. differentiation. d. organization.
Shelby is teaching her child to tie his shoes. Instead of rewarding him only when he completes the task, she rewards him for small successes along the way, such as crossing the laces, then making a loop, then tying the bow. What is this technique called?
a. behavior modification c. successive approximations b. success rewards d. task approximations