What are affordances, and how do they help infants adjust to the world?
What will be an ideal response?
Affordances are all the different ways in which we can understand and use an object.
By trying different affordances, infants can understand what an object looks like, tastes
like, smells like, etc. Further, infants can find different ways to use or to interact with
the object.
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a. Hugh, a 90-year-old male b. DeeDee, a 70-year-old female c. Frank, a 50-year-old male d. Betty, a 50-year-old female e. Jake, an 18-year-old male
Beck's cognitive therapy is particularly effective in the treatment of
a. anxiety disorders. b. somatoform disorders. c. schizophrenia. d. depression. e. dissociative disorders.
Sheila suffers with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her therapist has just placed his hands into dirt and is now encouraging Sheila to do likewise. Sheila's therapist is using
a. live modeling. b. symbolic exposure. c. participant modeling. d. symbolic modeling. e. token economy.
After correcting for differences in body weight, men and women drinking the same amount of ethanol have:
A) the same blood ethanol levels. B) different blood ethanol levels, with men having higher levels than women. C) different blood ethanol levels, with women having higher levels than men. D) equal probability of having higher or lower blood ethanol levels.