What does human intelligence permit us to do?
a. Think about abstractions.
b. Adapt to a great variety of living conditions.
c. Challenge our physical limitations.
d. All of these.
D
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Regarding the relationship between humans and planet Earth, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The environment has a significant impact on people, while people also have a significant impact on the environment. b. Each of us generates an ecological footprint, as we consume the resources it takes to sustain life. c. For every year of human resource consumption it will take Earth 1.5 years to recover with people using two Earth's worth of resources every year by the year 2030. d. The specialty area in psychology that studies the relationship between environments and human behavior is called consumer psychology.
A psychologist shows equal rows of coins, spreads out one row, and asks which row has more. What concept is she probably testing?
a. Accommodation b. Theory of mind c. Assimilation d. Conservation
In his third year of college, Omar comes to the realization that there are multiple possible truths, rather than one absolute truth, which are each relative to its context. Omar is engaged in __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Carol is seven years old, and her brother is 10 years old. According to the human growth sequence, Carol and her brother are in the period known as
a. early childhood. b. middle childhood. c. pubescence. d. senescence.