In the context of moral development, in adolescence, many-not all-individuals:
A. become capable of formal-operational thinking.
B. judge right and wrong in terms of social conventions, rules, and laws.
C. tend to view right and wrong in terms of rewards and punishments.
D. tend to make preconventional judgments.
Answer: A
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a. ?The animals' vocabularies are much less extensive than normal two- to three-year-old human children. b. ?The animals' sentences are much less complicated than those of human children. c. ?Judgments of what the animals are "saying" may be contaminated by experimenter bias. d. ?The animals don't have a language acquisition device, so they can't really be learning language.
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a. the same in industrial and non-industrial cultures. b. is high in industrial cultures, but low in non-industrial cultures. c. is high in non-industrial cultures, but low in industrial cultures. d. present in both industrial and non-industrial cultures in different ways.
Larissa was abused as a child, and as a young woman she now suffers from PTSD. Recent research suggests that an MRI scan of her brain is likely to reveal
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