According to Jean Piaget, __________ is the balance between internal structures and information that children encounter in their everyday worlds
A) imitation
B) adaptation
C) cognition
D) equilibrium
Answer: D
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What research result implies that people should remember traumatic experiences well? a. Increased heart rate decreases the retroactive interference that might block memory. b. Emotional experiences release cortisol, which aids memory storage
c. Pain increases the velocity of action potentials, and therefore promotes storage. d. Repression depends on inhibitory synapses, and inhibitory synapses are unstable.
The failure of witnesses to help Kitty Genovese when she was viciously attacked may have been due to the tendency to believe that others would act and so they wouldn't need to. This explanation is based on the principle of _________
a. perceived cost. b. situational ambiguity. c. diffusion of responsibility. d. attributions of the cause of need. e. self-interest.
Research by Leventhal and his colleagues (1967) was described in the text. In the experiment, the researchers showed one group of smokers a film depicting the ravages of lung cancer,
gave another group of smokers a pamphlet with instructions on how to quit smoking, and exposed a third group to both the film and the pamphlets. People in the last group reduced their smoking significantly more than people in the other two groups because a. fear was aroused and they were provided a means to reduce that fear. b. they were relatively light smokers. c. the combination increased their confidence in their ability to quit. d. prior to the study, they reported more failed attempts to quit.
If you stay awake for 3 days and then fall asleep, you will likely not sleep for the 24 hours of sleep that you missed. Instead, you might sleep 12 hours on the first night. Of the different stages of sleep, you are most likely to make up hours from stage:
a. 1.
b. 2.
c. 3.
d. REM.