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
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a. it had a large number of participants. b. it was conducted with animals, taking proper cautions about their safety. c. the results could be applied in real-world situations. d. the study was conducted by researchers with a behaviorist approach.
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
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
For members of minority groups, such as African Americans and Latinos, emotion-focused coping is used when they feel they have faced discrimination.
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.