Rachel is studying suicide. She is surprised to learn that, historically, people avoided talking about suicide because of the ____
a. shame and stigma involved in taking one's life
b. enduring pain of losing a loved one
c. lack of available statistics to make a discussion meaningful
d. aura of honor bestowed on people who take their own lives
A
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a. descriptive b. normative c. inferential d. random
Rene Descartes proposed that ____.
A. the mind and brain are the same B. consciousness is a fundamental property of the brain C. it makes no sense to debate the differences between the mind and brain D. the mind and brain are different and interact at the pineal
Follow-up research on Piaget's preoperational stage indicates that most 4-year-olds understand ______.
A. abstract concepts B. mental strategies C. that language can be used to solve problems D. that inanimate objects are not alive
The first stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development begins with reflex action and ends with mental representations. This first stage is known as the
a. sensorimotor stage. c. concrete operational stage. b. preoperational stage. d. formal operations stage.