Xiaoping is an international student from China who is studying at a university in the United States. When she meets another student who may be Chinese, she introduces herself in English. If she gets a sense that the other person speaks fluent Mandarin, she switches to that language. And if the person is also from her native Shanghai, they usually end up speaking Shanghainese. This process is known as language __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: Negotiation
Psychology
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a. true b. false
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According to the discussion of working memory, the phonological loop
a. is useful when you learn a foreign language. b. primarily activates the right hemisphere of the brain. c. primarily receives information from the episodic buffer. d. has a large capacity when you are learning new vocabulary words.
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