When 14-year-old Lorie thinks about the future, she is sure that she will be wealthy and well-known, not ordinary like everyone else in her small town. Lorie's feeling that she is special and unique is known as
A) the imaginary audience.
B) metacognition.
C) the personal fable.
D) hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
C
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If genes alone contribute to a trait, which of the following patterns of correlations would be observed?
a. 1.00 for identical twins raised together but a lower correlation for those raised apart b. 1.00 for both identical and fraternal twin pairs raised together but a lower correlation for those pairs raised apart c. 1.00 for identical twins and .50 for fraternal twins raised together and raised apart d. No significant correlation between identical twins or fraternal twins, regardless of whether they are raised together or apart
The inborn mechanism for learning language is called the ____.
A. language acquisition device B. poverty of the stimulus argument C. speech synthesizer D. grammatical articulation device
Which memory system is severely capacity-limited?
(a) sensory memory (b) working memory (c) LTM (d) semantic memory (e) the Gestalt system
Evolutionary theory proposes an explanation for male and female differences in attitudes toward sex called the _____ theory
a) survival of the fittest b) social Darwinism c) parental investment d) monogamy