José is a research psychologist meeting with his friends Carl and Lucinda, who are expectant parents. Lucinda asks José for some advice on how to maximize the intelligence of their child. Which empirically based suggestion would José likely NOT provide?
A) Read to the fetus nightly.
B) Breast-feed the baby.
C) Provide a stable financial environment for the child.
D) Send the child to preschool.
A) Read to the fetus nightly.
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a. ought? frustration b. ought? shame c. ideal? superiority d. ideal? hostility
Which of the following helps couples select the gender of the child?
A. in vitro fertilization B. donor IVF C. motility D. preimplantation genetic diagnosis
As compared to Piaget's theory, Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development best explains how a child learns to
A) cross a street safely for the first time. B) speak for the first time. C) crawl for the first time. D) stand upright for the first time.
The tendency to encode elements of the physical setting in which information is learned, along with memory of the information itself, is known as _____
a) state-dependent memory. b) the context effect. c) the serial position effect. d) the primacy effect.