Sara is angry at her older brother and calls him "a pantygirdle." At other times when she was angry, she called him "a toilet" and "a rat." Like other children her age, Sara sees the name of an object as being as much a part of the object as its size, shape, and color. Thus, this preoccupation with name calling is very common during which cognitive stage of development?
a. preoperational
b. concrete operational
c. prelinguistic
d. formal operational
ANSWER: a
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a. behavioral c. cognitive b. psychoanalytic d. humanistic
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a. object permanence b. scale comprehension c. conservation d. number sense
_____ Saffran and colleagues (1996) have shown that very young infants can detect regularities and extract sequential patterns in the linguistic sounds they hear
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following statements about rheumatoid arthritis is true?
A) Almost all older adults show some signs of the condition on X-rays. B) It is sometimes called "degenerative joint disease" or "wear-and-tear" arthritis. C) Although it can strike at any age, it rises after age 60. D) Symptoms cannot be relieved with analgesic medication.