Your 1-year-old went from being a non-speaker to learning about ____ words a week on average. This seems incredible
a. zero
b. one to three
c. five to seven
d. seven to nine
B. From 12 to 18 months, toddlers learn to speak one to three new words a week. Language would have made it easier to communicate about the location of food sources and about how to make tools, which would in turn enhance survival.
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A limitation of the BITCH is
a. lack of manualized administration. b. too few items. c. little convincing validity data. d. lack of normative data.
Regarding stranger anxiety, which statement is FALSE?
a. Stranger anxiety is less likely to occur when mom is close by. b. Children are most wary of strangers when they are encountered in familiar surroundings. c. Stranger anxiety is lessened when the caregiver responds positively to the stranger. d. Stranger anxiety is affected by the appearance of the stranger.
Pat notices that when thunder can be heard in the distance, her dog, Rudy hides under her desk, and she believes that the thunder causes Rudy to hide. She notices that Rudy does not hide in response to other loud noises, if, for example, she drops a cast iron pan in the kitchen. In experimental terms, Pat has observed ____
a. temporal precedence b. covariation c. plausibility d. causality
In adapting to a new culture, the pattern that involves rejecting your old culture but suffering rejection by members of the new culture is known as
a. assimilation. b. marginalization. c. integration. d. separation.