As an infant, Baby Sarah had typical childhood illnesses and no significant earaches. However, now Sarah is 4 years old and she is experiencing frequent earaches. What is the most likely reason for this?
a) Sarah attends preschool and picks up many more infectious bacteria and viruses than she did at home.
b) Sarah attends preschool, and the noise level of the other children playing aggravates her hearing and gives her earaches.
c) Sarah's eustachian tube has moved position from almost parallel to the ground at birth to a more angular position, and this change sometimes leads to an increase in earaches.
d) Sarah has developed an allergy to the shampoo her mother uses to wash her hair, and the result is inflammation in her eustachian tubes.
c
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a. admire the ability of older people to form lasting relationships. b. be more optimistic about the relationship than if she was 50 and he was 70. c. dismiss any notion that the couple might find each other attractive. d. condemn the idea that an older woman might be interested in sex.
Juan likes to play video games, but he also needs to increase his exercise time. So, he decides to only play a video game after he has exercised for 30 minutes. Using video game playing as a reward for exercising illustrates the use of
a. the Premack principle. b. latent learning. c. higher order conditioning. d. the law of association.
Name and describe the two substages of the preoperational stage
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Which of the following best describes your text's approach to human development?
A) Human development begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan. B) Human development begins at birth and becomes relatively stable by adolescence. C) Human development begins slowly at birth and accelerates as we age. D) Human development begins with the onset of puberty.