The Main Idea of the Role of Perceptual Salience in Attributions

question 104

Multiple Choice

The main idea of the role of perceptual salience in attributions is

• A) what we see is what we get.
• B) what we notice is presumed to be the cause of behavior.
• C) what we perceive is determined by our salient schemas.
• D) the attributions that we make determine what we attend to.

Follow the sequence of events in G protein signal transduction.

Understand the activation of protein kinase C.

Differentiate the role of signaling molecules and pathways in cell communication.

Examine how signal amplification occurs through activated receptors.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Scaffolding

The way in which a familiar word serves as an anchor for learning new words that come immediately before or after it.

Syntactic Bootstrapping

Use of knowledge of grammar to figure out the meaning of new words.

Fast Mapping

The way in which children quickly form an idea of the meaning of an unfamiliar word they hear in a familiar and highly structured social interaction.

Babbling

Early stage of language development where infants produce sounds or syllables repeatedly without specific meaning.