You have been a lifelong smoker, but you quit at the end of last week because you know how damaging it is to your health and you do not want to be a bad influence on your son, who is a toddler. You walk into your son's room and find him using a crayon to pretend he is smoking. According to Piaget, what is your son doing?
A. secondary circular reactions
B. deferred imitation
C. object permanence
D. action memory
Answer: B
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a. dreams b. sane hallucinations c. recovered memories from hypnosis d. all of these
__________ investigations consist of research conducted in order to establish averages or baselines
a. Normative b. Control c. Population d. Continuity
When a person speaks, brain waves and bloodflow are especially likely to reveal increased activity in the
A. hypothalamus B. left hemisphere C. amygdala. D. right hemisphere.
When Gladys, who was hard-of-hearing, attended her grandson's graduation, she devoted an inordinate amount of energy to just listening and trying to make sense of what she was hearing. Consequently, the next day, when her girlfriend asked her what the celebrity guest speaker spoke about, she could not remember. Gladys's failure to encode the speech into her memory is best accounted for by which
explanation? A) Inhibition-deficit B) Recollection-deficit C) Sensory-deficit D) Processing-resources-deficit