Sara is angry at her older brother and calls him "a panty-girdle.". At other times when she was angry, she called him "a toilet" and "a rat.". Like other children her age, Sara sees the name of an object an being as much a part of the object as its size, shape, and color. Thus, this preoccupation with name-calling is very common during which cognitive stage of development?
a. preoperational
b. concrete operational
c. prelinguistic
d. formal operational
A
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a. opiates. b. sedatives. c. narcotics. d. neuroleptics.
Margaret's piano recital is this Friday. She has been working on it all semester. This is an example of
a. ambient stress. c. acute stress. b. cultural stress. d. chronic stress.
Lilo can't wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo's class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying
a. language comprehension. b. language acquisition. c. speech production. d. speech parsing.
One major reason that groups tend to take greater risks than their members would take as individuals is
a. diffusion of responsibility. c. group intelligence. b. the reciprocity norm. d. all of these.