A preschooler who believes the word cow is a big word and the word caterpillar is a small word suggests that
a. he has dyslexia and is unable to read the two words.
b. he is underextending the meanings of the two words because he cannot read yet.
c. he lacks the metalinguistic awareness required to realize that the length of a word is not necessarily associated with the size of its referent.
d. preschoolers are not very good at comprehension monitoring.
C
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a. self-actualization b. personal causation c. personal regard d. extrinsic motive
According to the authors of your text, when the Bush administration received evidence that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq—
but after they had already invested troops and money in the war—the administration quickly explained that now the war was focused on ousting Saddam Hussein and liberating the Iraqi people. In essence, the administration may have ________ as a means of reducing dissonance. a. added new cognitions b. changed its attitudes c. changed its behavior d. used self-persuasion
The term for body weight that is 20% or more above the average weight for a person of a given height is called
a) gluttony. b) obesity. c) maturity. d) disability.
Which one of the following statements is FALSE?
A. Evidence for validity of a criterion can be gathered using a similar process to that used when establishing evidence of validity of a test based on content. B. Criteria must be representative of the events they are supposed to measure. C. A criterion is valid to the extent that it matches or represents the events in question. D. Unlike tests, reliability or consistency is unimportant for criteria.