Suppose a child is shown a set of glass marbles that includes 5 red marbles and 8 green marbles. The child is asked to count the red marbles, then the green marbles, and then all the marbles, which she can do

Although she can answer the question, "Are there more red or green marbles?" she cannot correctly answer the question, "Are there more red marbles than glass marbles?" This situation most clearly demonstrates which of the following concepts?
a. irreversibility
b. egocentrism
c. centration
d. symbolic representation


c

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A systematic or controlled measures is more preferable than self-reports.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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When comparing the brains of people with schizophrenia to those of people with schizotypal personality disorder, people with schizotypal personality disorder have __________ the prefrontal cortex.

A. less damage to B. smaller executive areas of C. more damage to D. larger emotional regulation areas of

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Yard children spend approximately __________% of their day outside of their immediate home area playing or doing errands

a) 15 b) 20 c) 25 d) 30

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