The benefits of play specific to children during middle childhood may include:
A. myelination in the developing brain.
B. increased self-esteem through playing games with external rules.
C. increased reliance on adult supervision.
D. fewer occasions for competitive social contexts.
Answer: B
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When conducting a job interview, antidiscrimination laws mean that in most cases you CANNOT ask questions about:
a. child-care plans b. medical problems c. criminal record d. all of the above
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What will be an ideal response?
A theoretical distribution that evenly distributes data around the mean, median, and mode is called the
A. normal distribution. B. bell-shaped distribution. C. Gaussian distribution. D. all of these.