Neo-Piagetian theorists argue that older children demonstrate more advanced problem solving
capabilities than younger children because older children have greater short-term memory
capabilities.
Therefore, these theorists would support the _______________ theory of
development.
a. continuity
b. discontinuity
c. stage
d. emergence
a. continuity
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Research has shown children can identify good and bad categories, and especially the "bad", very early in life. This highlights which psychological principle?
a. Good and bad are innate categories. b. Good and bad are arbitrary categories. c. Bad is stronger than good. d. Good is stronger than good.
The field of science that investigates the relationships between the nervous system and behavior/mental processes is ____
a. ?evolutionary psychology b. ?psychodynamic psychology c. ?neuroscience d. ?behaviorism
Your dog Scooter and cat Pockets have the disturbing habit of tormenting each
other. With much patience - and a rolled-up copy of Rolling Stone - you teach them to sit nicely together in a beanbag chair. After a long weekend away, you come home to find them pawing and clawing at each other, until they notice you. Then they run and sit harmlessly in the beanbag chair. This suggests (a) generalization from one situation to another (b) the extinction was incomplete (c) the punishment fully extinguished the response that was punished (d) punishment may not suppress the response unless the punisher is around
Until information stored in memory undergoes___, which is the process of forming a permanent physical representation, it is subject to disruption. Evidence from studies on rats placed in a murky water maze suggests that this process in the hippocampus requires the neurotransmitter___.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).