Seven-year-old Marvin and his four-year-old brother are sitting at the table as their mother pours milk into their glasses. Both glasses are the same size and shape
However, Marvin's mother notices a scratch/nick on the lip of his glass and decides that it is safer if she pours that milk into another glass so Marvin doesn't cut his lip. The new glass is shorter and much wider, and when she pours the milk into in, Marvin's younger brother laughs and says that now he has more milk than Marvin. However, Marvin is not upset because he knows that he still gets the same amount of milk. Marvin is exhibiting __________.
a) formal operations
b) decentering
c) preoperational
d) abstract reversing
Answer: b
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a. the rate of acquisition was unaffected by the intensity of the CS. b. the asymptotic level of conditioning was the same for each level of CS intensity. c. acquisition was complete after one trial with the high-intensity CS. d. the change in CS response strength from one trial to the next was smaller in the earlier trials than in the later trials.
Traditionally, growth has been defined as
a. physical changes that occur from conception to maturity. b. the biological unfolding of genetic potential. c. positive changes across the lifespan. d. gains, changes, and losses at each stage of the lifecycle.
An experimental procedure in which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur is the definition of__________________
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The Decisional Balance Sheet calls for people to list
(a) alternative actions (b) positive concrete consequences for the self (c) negative concrete consequences for the self (d) approval from others (e) all of these