A child's mother seldom objects if her child interrupts, and she seldom requires that her child take responsibility for cleaning his/her room or completing homework. This mother's parenting style would be considered
a. permissive. c. flexible.
b. authoritarian. d. authoritative.
A
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The evidence for the popular idea that all of our experiences are in permanent long-term storage is
a. incontestable. c. arguable. b. very strong. d. nonexistent.
All of these glands are ductless EXCEPT the
a. sweat gland. c. thyroid gland. b. adrenal gland. d. pituitary gland.
You see a friend of yours at a store, and her eyes are red and full of tears
You immediately go over to comfort her, assuming she has had another fight with her boyfriend. As you get to her, you ask what that "awful guy has done to her now." Your friend acts surprised that you would criticize the "love of her life." When you ask why she is crying, she tells you that her allergies are really acting up, and she is at the store to buy some allergy medicine. Your error with your friend occurred because you a. failed to distinguish between observation and inference. b. failed to distinguish between correlation and causation. c. failed to consider the source of the information. d. utilized inductive thinking rather than deductive thinking.
In the longitudinal study by Tomlinson-Keasey and colleagues, children were given the same five concrete-operational tasks at five different ages. A key finding was that
a. children got gradually better with age at some tasks but not others. b. children showed a dramatic gain in task performance between ages 7 and 8 on all tasks. c. gains were gradual across age on all tasks between 6 and 9 years of age. d. children’s performance was quite similar across tasks at each age, indicating that a single underlying ability was changing with age.