Four-year-old Brittany mistakes her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitty cat. Brittany's error best illustrates the process that Piaget referred to as:
a. accommodation
b. assimilation
c. object permanence
d. centration
B
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Which of the following groups of employed women is most likely to have health problems?
a. women in high-prestige jobs b. women in low-paying jobs c. women with children over the age of 6 d. women whose husbands are also employed
According to Shelly Taylor and her colleagues, why is the behavioral tendency toward affiliation stronger in females than males?
What will be an ideal response?
The aims of ethical standards in behavioral research are to ______.
A. ensure that only studies with absolutely no risk to participants are conducted B. protect the researcher from liability for their part in a research study C. ensure that all human participants are informed and protected from harm D. make sure that ethical behavior is the sole responsibility of ethics committees
All of the following have been suggested as methodological flaws in LeVay’s studies correlating the hypothalamus with homosexuality EXCEPT
a. AIDS is what altered the structure of the hypothalamus. b. LeVay did not ascertain the sexual orientation of his population of straight men. Some of them could have been gay. c. Perhaps being gay alters the structure of the hypothalamus; it is an effect rather than a cause. d. LeVay’s population of gay women, a control group, was larger than his population of gay men introducing statistical concerns.