Four-year-old Marta drew a picture with pretty lavender, purple, and blue colors intermixed with green, yellow, and brown. "It's a boat on the ocean at sunset, with whales jumping all around it!" she explained to her teacher. Marta is showing clear evidence of being in the ________ substage of Piaget's preoperational stage.

A. intuitive thought
B. self-consciousness
C. symbolic function
D. social referencing


Answer: C

Psychology

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Based on the case of Phineas Gage and other cases of brain damage, we might reasonably conclude that the sense of self or personality is associated with activity in the:

a. frontal lobe b. occipital lobe c. parietal lobe d. temporal lobe

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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Researchers of implicit memory have investigated the relationship between encoding and retrieval by using priming based on physical features or meaning. They have concluded that

a. physical priming works best. b. priming works best with fragment completion tasks. c. the form of priming that works best is independent of how information is initially encoded. d. priming works best when processes at encoding and retrieval match.

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