Four-year-old Keifer says, "We wented to school.". This most likely indicates that:
a. Keifer's parents use poor English at home
b. Keifer has forgotten the proper way to form past tense
c. English is not Keifer's native language
d. Keifer is overgeneralizing a grammatical rule
D
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The process of mentally "undoing" an action is referred to as
a. assimilation. b. a personal fable. c. egocentrism. d. reversibility.
A psychologist conducts research using the twin-study method. He administers a need for Achievement scale to sets of monozygotic and dizygotic twins and finds a correlation of .50 between the scores for pairs of monozygotic twins. If this study is to demonstrate evidence for a genetic influence on need for Achievement, what would we expect the correlation to be between scores for pairs of
dizygotic twins? A. Higher than .50 B. Lower than .50 C. Very close to .50 D. There is no way to demonstrate a genetic influence with these data.
When she makes a high grade on a test, Cynthia says, "I studied hard and did really well on that test!" When she scores low, she says, "That test was unreasonable and the professor just can't teach!" Her reactions are an example of:
A) an internal locus of control. B) a reaction formation. C) implicit egotism. D) the self-serving bias.
According to Erikson, the major goal of adolescent development is:
a) learning to deal with new sexuality. b) learning to think abstractly. c) distinguishing oneself from younger siblings. d) developing a sense of identity.