What is the term that is used to describe young children's thinking in which they often focus on one noticeable aspect of a cognitive problem to the exclusion of other important aspects?
a. conservation
b. egocentrism
c. centration
d. animism
Answer: C
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When you are studying for an exam, you will have a better chance of understanding, encoding, and later retrieving a concept if you use __________
a. verbal cognition b. visual and verbal cognition c. visual cognition d. vestibular cognition
Whenever Roger says "please," his father gives Roger what he asks for. This in turn increases Roger's use of the word "please." Giving in to Roger's requests appears to be a form of:
A. reinforcement. B. punishment. C. counterimitation. D. inhibition.
Which of the following best describes a weakness of the self-report format of personality assessment?
A. They capture more information than assessors usually want to know. B. Responses are influenced by people's desire to be viewed favorably. C. They are generally poor at capturing explicit aspects of personality. D. Responses are more reflective of a person's behavior than their beliefs.
The phenomena of worldwide intelligence scores steadily increasing over the past century is referred to as
A. entity theory. B. incremental theory. C. collective intelligence. D. the Flynn effect.