Show a 7-year-old child five toy horses and three toy cows, and then ask, "Are there more horses or more animals?" If the child responds, "More animals," he or she is most likely to be in the
A) sensorimotor stage.
B) preoperational stage
C) concrete operational stage.
D) formal operational stage.
C) concrete operational stage. Piaget proposed that in order to solve the class inclusion problem, a child must be in the concrete operational stage of development.
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a. A cluster of neurons b. A cluster of information c. A rehearsal strategy d. A way of processing nonsensical information
Dorene requires all of her students to fill out a survey in order to complete her research. What ethics problem does this raise?
A. She did not provide adequate information about possible study risks. B. She unnecessarily deceived the students. C. Students might feel they did not have the right to withdraw without negative consequences. D. She did not provide adequate debriefing information about the completed research.
Most of children's injuries in organized sports are
A) serious. B) minor. C) life threatening. D) due to exercising in cold weather.
The more "committed" the brain is to native-language patterns, the
A) better children's mastery of their native language. B) more effectively children acquire foreign language. C) more difficult it is for children to acquire reading skills. D) greater the chance the child is ambidextrous.