"Pete is older than Jill, and Jill is older than Pat. Who is older, Pete or Pat?" The ability to solve problems such as this demonstrates competence in
a. decentration.
b. identity.
c. centration.
d. transitivity.
d
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According to ____, human happiness comes from contemplation of the intellect
a. Philo c. Plotinus b. Alcmaeon d. Porphyry
A "token economy" is a type of ________ therapy
A) psychoanalytic B) family C) operant conditioning D) cognitive
Sarah's mom told her they were going outside in the rain and needed a bumbershoot. Sarah had never heard the word bumbershoot before, but she knew the word umbrella. Sarah tries to figure out what the new word means, and eventually she decides that a bumbershoot must be an umbrella. Sarah must abandon her __________ to reach this conclusion.
A) cardinality principle B) shape bias C) overregularization principle D) mutual exclusivity bias
The idea that development is a gradual process of increasing complexity due to the interaction of genes and the environment is called
A) heritability. B) meiosis. C) epigenesis. D) genetic determinism.