Piaget asserted that the child's experiences in the world combined with maturation together influence the child's cognitive development. This assertion BEST reflects the unifying theme in psychology that
a. psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
b. heredity and environment jointly influence behavior.
c. psychology is theoretically diverse.
d. our experience of the world is highly subjective.
B
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In Schachter and Singer's experiment, people who received epinephrine injections experienced euphoria in a happy situation, but so did the people who received a placebo injection. What conclusion, if any, do the results support? a. We can monitor our autonomic responses to determine which emotion we feel. b. Increased autonomic arousal leads to increased intensity of emotional experience. c
Autonomic arousal produces the feeling aspect of an emotion. d. None of these conclusions follow from the data.
One reason that successful schools are successful is that they place struggling students in lower tracks
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Donovan had a stroke last year, and doctors were unsure whether he would ever fully recover. Donovan did very little physical exercise to speed up his recovery, but the damaged cells in his nervous system still managed to regenerate and reestablish their network connections. Donovan's system has a naturally high level of
A. neural plasticity. B. lateral dominance. C. autoimmune functioning. D. autonomic restructuring.
As Shelly gets older, she is better able to work productively with people she doesn't like or doesn't respect. This ability is most central to which of the following concepts?
a. formal operations b. emotional intelligence c. postformal thought d. dialectical thought