In every country in which assessments have been conducted, girls score higher than boys on tests of ________ during middle childhood and adolescence
A) verbal ability
B) science
C) mathematics
D) spatial abilities
Answer: A
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a. positive; positive b. positive; negative c. negative; positive d. negative; negative
Your friend's grandmother is very sweet and energetic for her age at 72 years old. But your friend says her grandmother never takes care of herself: she is always driving other seniors to their doctor's appointments or visiting sick friends. Your friend is becoming worried because her grandmother's arthritis is getting worse and she is becoming depressed. The grandmother appears to be
A. high in communion. B. low in communion. C. high in unmitigated communion. D. none of the above
Unlike Piaget, Vygotsky believed that
A) language often distracts children from thinking about mental activities and behavior. B) egocentric speech interferes with children's attempts at constructing knowledge. C) children discover virtually all knowledge about the world through their own activity. D) language provides the foundation for all higher cognitive processes.
You measure the time it takes a rat to navigate a maze four times over the course of an
experiment. What type of nonrandom assignment to groups are you using? A) repeated measures B) natural pairs C) repeated sets D) multiple measurement