In the first month of life, infants use reflexes to learn about their world through the process of ______.
A. mental representation
B. equilibrium and disequilibrium
C. assimilation
D. accommodation
Answer: C
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a. Poverty rates decline for older Americans in part because both spouses contribute to retirement income through Social Security and pension plans. b. Poverty rates are higher for older Americans in part because of the lower economic status of widowed women. c. Older men live longer if there is a wife in the home to take care of them. d. Older men are 30 percent more likely to remarry after the loss of a spouse.
Bandera and colleagues' (1961) study of aggressive behavior in children a. demonstrated that children will follow an adult model's lead in terms of degree and nature of aggressiondemonstrated
b. identified the specific antisocial personality characteristics associated with highly aggressive children. c. demonstrated that violent TV has little effect on the children's own aggressive tendencies. d. illustrated the ability of punishment to curtail the aggressive tendencies of children.
Which of the following early psychologists conducted research that could provide the most information about how people remember complex events in everyday life?
a. Mary Whiton Calkins b. Frederic C. Bartlett c. William James d. Hermann Ebbinghaus
If the distribution of quiz scores for a class has high variability, most of the students scored within a few points of each other
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.