The inability of a child to mentally "undo" something is referred to as
a. assimilation.
b. object permanence.
c. egocentrism.
d. irreversibility.
D
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A. Hannah will continue to behave in the same manner throughout life because temperament is an inborn trait. B. Hannah will probably adapt her temperament style and will in time no longer display behavioral problems. C. Hannah will, in time, influence her mother to become more frustrated with parenting and become less sensitive to Hannah's needs. D. Hannah will have difficulty in school and with peers.
The primary somatosensory cortex consists of ______ areas, and each area contains ______ of the body.
A. four; a map B. two; two maps C. four; two maps D. three; overlapping maps
One possible explanation for girls being ahead of boys in language progress is
A) that parents use more child-directed speech with their infant daughters than their infant sons. B) a biological advantage in earlier development of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. C) that female infants initiate more "conversations" with caregivers than male infants. D) that adults reinforce female infants more than male infants when they begin to coo and babble.
If teenagers marry because of an unintended pregnancy, they are _____ likely to drop out of high school and _____ likely to get a divorce, compared to pregnant teens who don't marry or who marry after the birth of the child
a. more; more b. less; less c. more; less d. less; more