Nine-month-old Elizabeth's mother speaks to her a great deal throughout the day, even though Elizabeth cannot yet speak intelligible words herself. Studies have shown that until infants have started to produce words on their own, spoken words __________.
A. do not help in categorization
B. are ignored
C. help infants to group items within categories
D. confuse infants
Answer: C
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The correlation between the amount of formal education people receive and their intelligence is:
A) greater than .5. B) between .3 and .5. C) between .1 and .3. D) almost 0.
Gus is asking a standard set of questions to each of his participants one-on-one. He doesn’t vary the order or manner in which they are asked. He is using which descriptive method?
A. semi-structured interview B. questionnaire C. observational research D. structured interview
Individualistic culture is to independent self as collectivistic culture is to __________ self
a. collection b. social c. ideal d. interdependent
Through their experiments, Fritsch and Hitzig showed that:
a. The muscle in a frog's leg can be made to move by stimulating the nerve connected to it, even if the muscle had been removed from the body. b. The rate of nerve conduction is about 90 feet per second. c. The left hemisphere controls speech. d. Sensation is the result of electrical activity in the brain.