The notion that development is best described in terms of a series of abrupt shifts in behavior best fits with the ____ approach
a. nature
b. nurture
c. continuity
d. discontinuity
d
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According to Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development, centration is the tendency to focus on a single aspect of a problem
a) True b) False
What ethical and pragmatic issues must be considered when conducting research with children?
What will be an ideal response?
Based on what was presented in the textbook about localization, how did researchers in the 1800s go about identifying parts of the brain that are involved in specific behaviors?
A. by conducting brain scans B. by examining the brains of people with disrupted behavior after those people died C. by giving thorough examinations to anyone who suffered brain damage D. by recording the electrical activity of individual brain cells while a person completed a task
For Tolman, independent variables are ____ and give rise to internal, unobservable events that, in turn, cause behavior.
a. environmental events b. theoretical concepts c. variables that are unrelated to any other variables d. behavioral events