A researcher, interested in how children interact with each other, goes to a school playground and unobtrusively takes notes as she watches them over a period of several hours. This researcher is using the ______ method of research
a. naturalistic observation
b. psychometric
c. experimental
d. case study
a
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A primary role of the ventral prefrontal cortex seems to be
a. assessing the personal significance of environmental events. b. making social judgments. c. thinking logically about future events. d. translating emotional reactions into appropriate feelings and actions. e. assessing sexual arousal.
If you were a dietician at a restaurant in an extended care facility where active healthy people in older adulthood ate, you should know that, in comparison to younger adults, older adults need about _______ calories and about _______ nutrients
a. the same number of; 20% more b. 20% more; the same number of c. the same number of; 20% fewer d. 20% fewer; the same number of
Based on their research, some scientists believe that:
a. adolescents who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults because their cognitive abilities and moral reasoning abilities are like those of an adult. b. the brain is not fully mature until the early to mid-twenties, so adolescents should not be held fully responsible for violent acts that they commit before that time. c. the human brain is fully developed around 10 years of age, so the risky, dumb, or criminal things adolescents do should be blamed entirely on hormonal changes. d. adolescents should be considered as adults in the eyes of the law as soon as they have completed puberty, because physically they are adults at that point.
Until minimum levels of physical structure are mature, no amount of practice will be sufficient to develop certain skills. This statement reflects
a. assimilation. b. readiness. c. resiliency. d. habituation.