Five-year-old Nathan pours juice from a tall glass into a shorter one. He then gives the short glass to Vince. Threeyear-old Vince is upset because he now believes he has less juice than when it was in the tall glass. This aspect of preoperational thought is called
a. egocentrism.
b. precausal thinking.
c. transductive reasoning.
d. irreversibility.
d
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"When my grandmother was alive, she used to call me Gerald, who was her cousin, and my name is not Gerald." Grandmother was experiencing:
A. selective attention B. proactive interference C. repression D. retroactive interference
The ______, which based immigration on family reunification rather than national origins quotas, resulted in an 800% increase in the number of Asian immigrants since 1970.
a. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
b. Immigration Act of 1917
c. Gentleman's Agreement of 1907
d. Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
Nancy is afraid of heights. What will most likely reduce anxiety while hiking beside a cliff?
a. Stop hiking until the anxiety subsides. b. Telling herself, "It's not so high." c. Forcing herself to look down. d. Counting her footsteps as she walks.
In a study of the impact of class size on elementary school children, placing teacher's aides in regular-size classes
A) raised math scores. B) raised reading scores. C) had no impact. D) predicted higher graduation rates.