What can be said regarding Piaget's understanding of children's early abilities?
A. He underestimated their abilities.
B. He overestimated their abilities.
C. He was completely wrong about their abilities.
D. He was accurate about their abilities.
Answer: A
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Which of the following is not a good way to promote children's self-esteem?
a. praising them only when they accomplish difficult tasks b. praising them for all their efforts, whether or not they succeed at tasks c. encouraging them when they struggle with a tough problem d. not becoming involved when they struggle with a tough problem
According to Piagetian theory, the ________ component of adaptation is the process of modification in schemes that takes place when old ways of understanding an experience no longer fit
a. schematizing c. assimilation b. organization d. accommodation
One of the basic themes in Part 1 is that personal experience can be very
untrustworthy as a guide to the truth. An example is (a) our visual perception is faulty, so the stars appear much further away than they are (b) our bodies cannot detect uniform motion, which means that we tend to perceive the world as stationary (c) placebo effects, such as in the study on speech anxiety (d) both B and C are examples of the untrustworthiness of personal experience
One major limitation of correlational studies is that
A) researchers alter the experiences of those studied. B) researchers do not gather information about everyday life. C) researchers cannot make inferences about cause and effect. D) the results cannot be generalized to other people and settings.