What type of study will yield information on whether or not persons who were abused as children develop mental disorders in adulthood?
a. meta-analysis
b. experiment
c. case study
d. correlational
d
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Jasper is 11 months old and has a vocabulary of approximately 10 words. He is able to distinguish between the colours red and yellow. When Jasper's mother asks him to bring her a blue block that was mixed among red and yellow blocks, Jasper immediately identified a colour that was in contrast to the colours he recognizes. Which process does this scenario illustrate?
A) framing effects B) syllogistic reasoning C) functional fixedness D) fast mapping
Noah, the backup quarterback on the football team, never stops talking about how great he is
He insists that if the coach would only give him a chance, he would show everyone that he is the best. What might Noah be exhibiting? A) Inferiority complex B) Style of life C) An archetype D) Superiority complex
Apart from the severity of the physiological symptoms, how else might you distinguish between sleep terrors and nightmares?
a) Sleep terrors occur out of Stage 4 sleep; nightmares occur out of REM sleep. b) Adults tend to have sleep terrors; children are more likely to have nightmares. c) Sleep terrors tend to occur later in sleep; nightmares tend to occur early in sleep. d) The content of a sleep terror is often remembered because of its violent nature; the content of nightmares is rarely recalled.
Which statement is accurate about the substantial similarities worldwide in how cultures socialize young children and structure their social environments?
A. Fathers take over the role of socialization and mothers have no role at all. B. There is a rapid and complete reduction in the roles that mothers play in a child's social development. C. There is an increase in the roles that mothers play in the socialization of a child. D. There is a gradual lessening of dependence on the mother and a move toward peers and older children.