Which of the following is a characteristic of Piaget's concrete operations stage of cognitive development?
a) Children are unable to understand the other person's point of view.
b) Children develop the ability to think logically about abstract concepts, such as peace and freedom.
c) Instead of thinking a problem through, children tend to rely on trial-and-error strategies.
d) Children understand the world through their sensory perceptions and motor behaviors.
c
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Which of the following statements characterizes children raised by same-sex parents?
a. They have poor socioemotional development. b. They have difficulties in gender-role development. c. They have a tendency to adopt a same-sex orientation. d. They develop in similar ways to children raised by heterosexual parents.
An operational definition is:
a. a statement that attempts to describe or explain a given behavior. b. an organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena and their interrelationships. c. the precise meaning of a term, which specifies the processes required for observing and measuring the phenomenon being investigated. d. a statement that is accepted without proof and regarded as fundamental to a subject.
At the age of 66, Hilda is worried when researchers ask her to take an IQ test. She knows that older people are assumed to have failing cognitive abilities. Which term is used to describe Hilda's anxiety?
How could Hilda's test performance be affected by her worries? What will be an ideal response?
A negative correlation means that __________.
A. high values of one variable are associated with low values of the other B. high values of one variable are associated with high values of the other C. low values of one variable are associated with low values of the other D. there is no relationship between the two variables