What are overextensions? Provide an example of one
What will be an ideal response?
Overextension refers to the expanding of a word's true meaning to include more objects than it should. For
example, a child may call all dogs dalmatians, or the child may call all older women grandmas. (Answers will
vary.)
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A therapist is helping a client to restructure the way she thinks and to alter her distorted self-statements. It sounds as though this therapist is using ________ therapy
a. biomedical b. humanistic c. psychodynamic d. cognitive
To remember the five Great Lakes, you might remember the word HOMES, because each of the five letters in HOMES is the first letter of one of the Great Lakes. This strategy is known as
a. the method of loci. b. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. c. a natural language mediator. d. a recognition task. e. maintenance rehearsal.