Larson and Richards (1994) compared preadolescent fifth-graders to adolescent eighth-graders and found that the percentage of time experienced as "very happy" _______________
a. increased slightly
b. increased dramatically
c. stayed the same
d. decreased
Answer: D
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What is problematic about the legal criteria used to determine degrees of visual impairment, especially with regard to the development of children?
A. No consistent federal guidelines for classifying visual impairment have been adopted. B. Determining impairment is based on the judgment of a family physician, and that judgment may be flawed due to lack of training or special considerations. C. Most insurance companies don't reimburse for corrective lenses; therefore, children and their parents are reluctant to admit to visual difficulties. D. The criteria pertain solely to distance vision, whereas children with visual difficulties usually engage in close-up visual tasks in the classroom.
When Joe lived alone, he cleaned his apartment every weekend. But last summer he lived in a house with four other people, and in that situation he rarely put in his fair share of cleaning. Social psychologists would say that, when he lived with others, Joe engaged in ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Brain plasticity is like
a. arguing for your views even when you know you are wrong. b. deciding to hatch a baby chick instead of eating an egg. c. reducing a car's weight by making parts from plastic. d. fresh pliable modeling clay that hardens over time.
Regarding the relationship between cognition and language, Piaget asserted that
a. cognition and language are unrelated mental skills. b. language development promotes cognitive advancement. c. cognitive development promotes language advancement. d. cognition and language are mutually supportive.