Maddy, age 7, is presented with the following statement: If rats are bigger than cats and cats are bigger than mice, then rats are bigger than mice. She will probably judge such reasoning to be
A) true because she understands propositional thought.
B) true if she has seen cats, rats, and mice in picture books.
C) false because not all relations specified occur in real life.
D) sometimes true and sometimes false depending on her educational background.
C
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a. telegraphic speech. b. parentese. c. universal grammar. d. a symbolic gesture.
A researcher pairs a tone of 1200 Hz with an electric shock in a conditioning experiment. On some trials, he presents tones of 1000 Hz or 1500 Hz without the shock. The procedure he is using resembles the method used to bring about
a. blocking. b. trace conditioning. c. stimulus discrimination. d. stimulus generalization.