When you listen to a foreign language being spoken, it likel…
When you listen to a foreign language being spoken, it likely sounds like a single stream of sound, rather than a series of distinct words. In order to parse that stream of sound into distinct words, what would you need to do?
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Rose is an honors student, an astrophysics major, and the only woman in one of her classes. In this class, the professor regularly makes comments about how women are not cut out for the field. If she performs poorly in this class due to anxiety arising from the fear of confirming her professor’s beliefs, it is the result of
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Arjun is 4 years old and can clearly indicate that two containers of the same size, filled to the same level, hold the same amount of liquid. However, when the liquid from one of the containers is poured into another that is skinnier and taller, Arjun indicates that this new container now holds more liquid than the other. According to Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, which stage is Arjun in and what principle has he failed to understand?
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A laboratory wants to develop a drug that can be administered prenatally to alter the course of brain development in fetuses that carry genetic abnormalities. Which statement accurately describes the role of environmental influences on prenatal brain development that the scientists should consider before they begin developing the drug?
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