Which statement about the language acquisition device is FALSE?
a. It is activated by exposure to language.
b. It determines the language an infant speaks.
c. It involves specific areas of the brain.
d. It helps a child learn the specific language to which he or she is exposed.
b
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Which of these is a major symptom of Parkinson's disease?
a. Sudden attacks of sleepiness during the day b. Odd habits, such as repeating whatever other people say c. Impairments of voluntary movement d. Frequent outbursts of angry emotion
The neurons in Michael's arm just sent a neural impulse. It will be 1–2 milliseconds before another neural impulse can be generated. This brief time period, when another neural impulse cannot occur, is called the
a. all-or-none period. b. absolute refractory period. c. resting potential. d. postsynaptic discharge.
Max, an attorney, is attending a hearing at the federal courthouse. He opens the courthouse door for a young woman with a tattoo on her forearm. When Max enters the room of the hearing, he is stunned to see that the assigned judge is the same woman. Max had applied the ____
a. ?representativeness heuristic b. ?availability heuristic c. ?recognition heuristic d. ?affect heuristic
Suppose you tested two age groups on the number of details they could recall from a paragraph. The mean for the older group is 16, and the mean for the younger group is 14 . Further suppose you fail to reject the null hypothesis for this independent-samples t-test. What best accounts for the difference between these sample means?
What will be an ideal response?