What was the three-mountain test designed to measure and what did Piaget conclude from it?
What will be an ideal response?
Piaget used the three-mountain test to show that egocentrism prevents young children from taking the viewpoints of others. Five- and six-year-olds typically responded to the test in ways consistent with their own, but not others, vantage points.
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Background conditioning occurs when medium- or high-intensity electric shock is presented but not preceded by an explicit CS. The authors attribute the failure of low-intensity electric shock to produce background conditioning to ________ and the near-absence of background conditioning when a CS precedes electric shock to ________.
a. habituation; overshadowing b. blocking; sensory preconditioning c. overexpectation; sensitization d. the S-S, S-R model of basic acquisition; the S-S, S-S model of basic acquisition
Studies involving brain imaging reveal that _____ makes it possible for people to carry out mental tasks with less neural activity
A) declaring B) priming C) positioning D) displacing
In __________ amnesia, the trauma prevents patients from remembering events that took place before the accident
a. retrograde c. anterograde b. infantile d. dissociative
Perhaps you've seen the movie The Lion King. Two brother lions were at the center of the plot, Scar and Mufasa
Scar was weak, thin, and rather lanky. Mufasa was strong, muscular, and had a very dominant presence. Because Mufasa had the qualities and traits that would help him survive and reproduce at a higher rate than his brother, biologists would say that he had a higher level of A) androgen. B) drift. C) genetics. D) fitness.