Natural selection is a key supporting principle of ____ theory
a. ethological
b. Piaget's cognitive
c. psychoanalytical
d. sociocultural
A
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Yoga and meditation are examples of a. aerobic exercise
b. primary appraisal. c. mindfulness-based stress reduction. d. secondary appraisal.
Fulero and Finkel (1991) compared mock jurors' responses to expert testimony regarding the mental state of a defendant. They found that
A. mental-health experts providing only diagnostic testimony were the most influential. B. mental-health experts providing a diagnosis and a penultimate opinion regarding the defendant's understanding of wrongfulness were the most influential. C. mental-health experts providing a diagnosis, penultimate opinion, and an ultimate opinion about the defendant's mental state at the time of the act were the most influential. D. mental-health experts did not differ in the extent to which they influenced mock jurors.
The results of the early experiments in which researchers attempted to teach language to chimpanzees
a. showed that chimps can be taught to communicate like humans. b. led to agreement that humans were cueing the chimps to make appropriate linguistic responses. c. determined that chimps could not acquire any linguistic abilities. d. led to controversy as to whether the chimps' linguistic abilities actually constituted meaningful language use.
Which theoretical assumption is not widely held by lifespan professionals?
A) Development follows predictable, age-related patterns. B) Developmental outcomes are often based on developmental history. C) Development is caused by the environment and people cannot shape their own development. D) Patterns of development and developmental outcomes can be reliably assessed.