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rlane42

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Joshua is a 14-year-old child with Down syndrome. If he is like other children with this syndrome, he is likely to follow which course of development?
 
  a. He will meet the same developmental milestones as his peers but at a much slower rate.
  b. He will follow a similar path of development as same-aged peers but plateau at the point where tasks require higher-level thinking skills.
  c. He will never accomplish developmental tasks that require language, social interactions, or other adaptive behavior skills.
  d. It is unlikely that he will accomplish the same developmental skills as same-aged peers even with intense and early intervention.

Question 2

A critic of personality inventories says, These tests have no way of detecting faking or defensiveness in the individuals who take them. Worse, they never include norms for responses of people from different cultural groups. Which response to these criticisms is accurate?
 
  a. The MMPI-2 has both of the features the critic says are absent.
  b. The critic is correct about the problem of faking but not about norms from different cultures.
  c. The critic is confusing the problems of projective tests with those of inventories.
  d. Current research supports what the critic is saying.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

A



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