Which of the following is NOT a criticism of Piaget's theory?
A) Cultural plays a large role in the attainment of formal operational thought.
B) Young children are less cognitively advanced than he believed.
C) There may be a stage or quality of thinking beyond formal operations.
D) Some adolescents and adults never reach the formal operational stage.
Answer: B
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a. the law now specifies that these women must earn at least a minimum-wage salary. b. health insurance is now one of the guaranteed benefits of this kind of work. c. many of these women report that they are treated like modern-day slaves. d. the situation of domestic workers has been very well publicized in the current decade.
Among the conclusions we can draw from research on emotional affectivity, which of the following has been clearly demonstrated?
A. People with positive affect report more health problems. B. Negative affect is related to psychological stress. C. Negative affect is related to social activity. D. all of the above
A tendency to only see objects and their potential uses in typical ways is called:
a. functional fixedness b. belief persistence c. the availability heuristic d. representativeness
Modern psychology is said to have begun when:
a. Greek philosophers began studying the differences between people. b. Wundt opened the first laboratory devoted to the scientific study of psychology. c. Freud developed psychoanalytic theory and therapy. d. it was discovered in the early 1900s that many illnesses have no medical basis.