When a newborn's foot is stroked from heel to toe, the infant will fan its toes. This is known as the
a. Moro reflex. c. palmar reflex.
b. Babinski reflex. d. rooting reflex.
b
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Which of the following represents the best summary of the current research on child care?
a. Children who have been in child-care programs show consistently better social skills than children cared for primarily at home. b. Children in child-care programs show advanced cognitive development, but they are much less likely to show secure attachment to their mothers than children cared for at home. c. Although attachment seems to be unaffected by child-care programs, cognitive development can be delayed due to the lack of individual attention. d. Many factors—such as quality of program and the families' economic background—seem to influence the effects of child-care programs on children.
You decide that a bearded professor wearing a rumpled sports coat is a member of the art faculty, rather than the business school faculty (which actually has more members) because he looks like an artist. What judgment error have you committed?
a. You relied too heavily on the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. b. You should not have trusted your hindsight so completely. c. You should have been more aware of the law of large numbers. d. You did not pay enough attention to the base rate.
Ebbinghaus is often mistaken for a(n) ____, but he was in fact a(n) ____.
a. empiricist; rationalist b. rationalist; empiricist c. structuralist; empiricist d. empiricist; structuralist
Jarrod has been monitoring his goal and realized one of his strategies was ineffective, so he corrected it. Jarrod is experiencing the motivational benefit of monitoring known as
a. increased goal attention. b. goal strategy adjustments. c. performance feedback. d. increased self-awareness