As children become more mature problem solvers, how do they use problem-solving strategies?
What will be an ideal response?
Children choose from a store of multiple strategies. They may use multiple strategies at once, and they do not swap out old strategies and replace them with new ones, but rather blend elements as they develop.
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a. spent most of their time clinging to the surrogate mother with the baby bottle. b. spent most of their time clinging to the cloth mother. c. divided their time between the two surrogate mothers. d. would not come near either surrogate mother.
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A) Choose a group of children who scored low on spatial reasoning tests and a group who scored high and compare the number of video game play hours for each group. B) Calculate a correlation between spatial reasoning test scores and the number of video game play hours by one group of children. C) Select a group of children who play a lot of video games and a second group who have never played video games and compare their scores on spatial reasoning tests. D) Randomly choose half of the children to play video games and half to play no video games and compare spatial reasoning measures for each group.
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A) lower risk for developing dissatisfaction with her body. B) greater risk for developing an eating disorder. C) less risk for being underweight. D) greater risk for being sexually abused.