According to Freud, the ego operates on:
a. the pleasure principle
b. the idealistic principle
c. the reality principle
d. the sublimation principle
C
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Psychologists use the term _____ to refer to the patterns of physical, cognitive, and socioemotional change occurring throughout life.
A) learning B) maturation C) development D) cognition
A child in grade three must learn the rules of multiplication (1 ? 1 through 12 ? 12) in 2 weeks. The BEST advice to give this student is to:
A) devote a single day of memorization to each multiplier (e.g., learn 2 ? 1 through 2 ? 12). B) wait until the day before the test, memorize all of the problems and their answers, and then get a good night of sleep. C) make a list of all of the problems and their answers, and review this information repeatedly each day. D) make flashcards with the problem on the front (9 ? 7) and the answer on the back (63), and quiz yourself repeatedly each day.
Forming subgoals is a useful heuristic because it
a. reduces the size of the search space. c. encourages insight. b. guarantees a successful solution. d. helps overcome functional fixedness.
Professor Chan believes that language is a unique human accomplishment that children acquire naturally due to the structure of the brain. Professor Chan supports the __________ perspective of language development
A) nativist B) behaviorist C) interactionist D) sociocultural