Heidi is shown 16 flowers, 4 of which are blue and 12 of which are red. Asked, "Are there more red flowers or flowers?" Heidi, a preoperational child, responds, "More red flowers." This problem demonstrates Heidi's difficulty with
A) animistic thinking.
B) egocentrism.
C) hierarchical classification.
D) magical thinking.
C
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Dodge found that aggressive children were more likely than nonaggressive children to respond with aggression when another child
a. clearly aggressed against them with hostile intent. b. caused harm, and the intentions were ambiguous. c. clearly intended to be helpful but accidentally caused harm. d. caused no harm, and the act was unanimously accidental.
Aunt Emily is the family's kinkeeper. This means that she assumes responsibility for
the financial stability of the family. caring for her grandchildren while their parents work. gathering the family for holidays, sending birthday reminders, and disseminating family communications. regularly visiting family members who live in care homes.
The tendency of children to report positive emotions more than negative ones is
A) perspective taking. B) linked to punishment. C) positive emotion bias. D) linked to the use of positive discipline.
Thinking involves all of the following EXCEPT
a. pattern recognition. b. intuition. c. attention and memory d. engramatic notation.