Suppose a child’s brown dachshund gives birth to a litter of black-and-gold puppies. The child now learns that dachshunds can be black and gold as well as brown. According to Piaget, the child is now using the concept of
a. accommodation.
b. assimilation.
c. modification.
d. schemata.
Answer: B
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a. guilt. b. pride. c. anger. d. satisfaction.
Increasingly, researchers view human development as
A) taking place entirely before and during adolescence B) declining in old age C) influenced more by heredity than environment D) a perpetually ongoing process
Currently, _____ have passed legislation that grants prescription privileges to appropriately trained psychologists.
A. all 50 states B. 31 states C. 3 states D. no states
One way to ease students' adjustment to a school transition is to
A) encourage teachers to keep their emotional distance. B) create smaller social units within larger schools. C) ensure that students have contact with many different children each day. D) have groups of students go through the transition at different times in the school year.