What is the term that Piaget used to explain the process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking?
Answer: Assimilation
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Regarding the normal curve, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Relationships between the standard deviation and the normal curve do not change. b. A normal curve represents the distribution of chance events. c. A normal curve has a low number of scores near the middle of the distribution. d. A normal curve is applicable to a wide range of psychological variables and traits.
The short version of an androgen receptor gene occurs more frequently in men who
A) have altruistic tendencies. B) have high levels of empathy. C) live in a culture of honor. D) have been convicted of a violent crime.
My exposure to the typical use of objects in my culture may render me less able to find novel solutions to problems. This is referred to as
A) functional fixedness. B) availability heuristic. C) mental sets. D) salience of surface characteristics.
. Kyle knows while torching his own car for the insurance may not physically injure any one person, it does create an effect of contributing to the rising costs of car insurance. Kyle is demonstrating
a. advanced social cognitive reasoning. b. conventional system perspective taking. c. information processing. d. mutual perspective taking