Allison is a 16-year-old who shows an increasing ability to plan and think ahead. She has
sent for college information and has made financial plans to help pay for college.
She is in which of the following of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
a. concrete operational thought
b. preoperational thought
c. formal operational thought
d. sensorimotor thought
c
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You will have difficulty reading your textbook if you are simultaneously singing the words to your favorite song. How would Alan Baddeley explain this phenomenon?
a. The words from the textbook and the words from the song will interfere with each other in the phonological loop. b. The visuospatial sketchpad is overcrowded, because both of these tasks have a strong visual component. c. The central executive cannot handle two verbal tasks at the same time. d. The singing prevents the words in your textbook from passing directly from semantic memory into long-term memory.
The sound of dogs barking is first held in ________ storage
A) echoic B) iconic C) long-term D) short-term
Compared to social psychologists, personality psychologists are more likely to focus their attention on
a. subjective construals. b. positive behaviors. c. individual differences. d. rewards and punishments.
Which statement reflects the most current information regarding racial and ethnic differences in the timing of first sexual intercourse?
A. African Americans generally have sex for the first time earlier than do Puerto Ricans, who have sex earlier than do whites. B. There is no significant difference between racial and ethnic groups in the timing of their first sexual intercourse. C. Whites generally have sex for the first time at an earlier age than other racial or ethnic groups. D. Sex education has made a significant impact on when ethnic and racial groups will have sex for the first time.