When children lie and deceive their parents to keep out of trouble, they are using which design feature of language?

a) arbitrariness
b) specialization
c) displacement
d) prevarication

Answer: d

Psychology

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The existentialists maintain that Freud's emphasis on the use of objective techniques to study behavior:

a. limited the range of phenomena that he studied b. helped him to develop a complete and precise theory of human behavior c. helped him to develop a theory that was highly stimulating to other investigators d. helped him to develop a simple but elegant theory of personality

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