Children and adults who are able to understand places, things, and events that they have not experienced would be considered to be in the _____ stage of cognitive stage, according to Jean Piaget
a. sensorimotor b. preoperational
c. formal operational d. concrete operational
c
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Which of the following is true of those who believe that the family is changing, but not deteriorating?
A) They argue that family problems such as desertion and nonmarital births have always existed. B) They believe that the mother who works outside the home is a new phenomenon. C) They argue that the emergence of single-parent families is a new trend. D) They believe that divorces did not take place until the late twentieth century.
In comparison to experiments and surveys, field research has:
a. greater reliability and greater validity b. greater reliability and less validity. c. less reliability and greater validity. d. less reliability and less validity. e. the same reliability and validity.
The sociological concept of deviance was:
a. Used to replace social disorganization b. Unknown before the 1950s c. Used to replace social pathology d. Unknown prior to 1940s
Of all the property crimes discussed in the chapter, one occurs far more than all the others. Which one is it?
a. motor-vehicle theft b. larceny-theft c. robbery d. forcible rape