[单项选择]Psychologists study the meaning of color preference because ______.


A. colors may affect the emotional states of the people
B. colors may decide the results of our work and study
C. color preference can tell you who your friends are
D. color preference can help you to see through your enemies

[单项选择]Psychologists study the meaning of color preference because ______.


A. colors may affect the emotional states of the people
B. colors may decide the results of our work and study .
C. color preference can tell you who your friends are
D. color preference can help you to see through your enemies

[单项选择]If the study of meaning is conducted in the context of language use, a branch of linguistic study called ______ comes into being.


A. syntax
B. semantics
C. pragmatics
D. morphology

[单项选择]When the study of meaning is conducted in the context of language use, it becomes a branch of lingustic study called______.


A. syntax
B. pragmatics
C. phonetics
D. morphology

[单项选择]______ does not study meaning in isolation, but in context.


A. Pragmatics
B. Semantics
C. Sense relation
D. Concept

[单项选择]______is generally defined as the study of meaning and usually pays attention to the study of meaning of linguistic units themselves, words and sentences in particular, which has always been a central topic in human scholarship.


A. Phonetics
B. Connotation
C. Sense
D. Semantics

[单项选择]Some psychologists argue that the traditional idea "spare the rod and spoil the child" is not reasonable.
A. helpful
B. kind
C. sensible
D. effective

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Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive(认识派的) researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from others.
The latter view has gained many supporters, especially among educators. But the careful use of small monetary(金钱的) rewards speaks creativity in grade-school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements(刺激) indeed aid inventiveness, according to a study in the June Journal of personality and Social psychology.
"If kids know they’re working for a reward and can focus on a relatively challenging task, they show the most creativity," says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. "Bu
A. Assigning them tasks they have not dealt with before.
B. Assigning them tasks which require inventiveness.
C. Giving them rewards they really deserve.
D. Giving them rewards they anticipat

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Psychologists say the one factor that differentiates people who are creative from those who aren’t is belief-creative people believe they are creative. To be creative, you simply have to believe and act as it you are. Once you believe you are creative, you begin to find ideas and to imagine all kinds of probable and improbable solutions.
Here are a few techniques to help you get started looking for ideas you may already have in your mind.
Play a different role. Suppose you want to improve your company’s training program. Play the role of another person: Write, from the perspective of that role. What changes that person would make. Record any interesting thoughts or new ideas.
Randomly pick something and compare it with your problem. Open a dictionary and randomly, without looking, pick a word. Force yourself to make a comparison between the problem and the word.
Suppose you are having a problem with a manager and you randomly pick the w
A. to learn from such creative persons as Henry Ford.
B. to develop one' s thinking power in every conceivable way
C. to sum up all the successful methods ever- tried by creative people
D. to learn to be more creative by doing easy things in an unusual way

[单项选择]Psychologists have errantly mounted an offensive against what they describe as nastiness toward students by educators.
A. arbitrariness
B. unpleasantness
C. severity
D. aloofness