Jack is taking a class on Piaget, and as part of an assignment, he is "testing" someyoungsters on various Piagetian tasks. He gives four-year-old Meg a bag of white and striped marbles. They discuss the fact that marbles are made of glass. Meg counts the marbles—7 whites and 18 stripes. Jack asks, "Are there more striped marbles or more glass marbles?" Meg answers, "There are more striped
marbles." This demonstrates Meg's difficulty with
a. class inclusion.
b. conservation.
c. identity.
d. transformations.
a
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You go to Africa to study elephants. You follow one particular group, and one day you observe the other members of the group gather around a sick and dying elephant. The healthy elephants shuffle and trumpet and act in an agitated manner. You conclude that they are sad because one of their members is dying. Without any other evidence, you have just
a. committed the anthropomorphic error. b. become involved in the observer effect. c. engaged in research participant bias. d. created an empirical fallacy.
Research findings on televised violence have found that TV violence will
a. cause any child to be significantly more aggressive. b. make aggressive behavior more likely for many children. c. increase aggression in the short-term during childhood, but will not affect the children when they become adults. d. vicariously lower aggressive urges for many children and adults.
When memories are available but are not accessible, which type of forgetting is most likely involved?
a. encoding failure b. suppression c. proactive interference d. cue-dependent forgetting
William Masters and Virginia Johnson were the first scientists to observe and measure sexual behavior in the laboratory, which resulted in a four-stage model called the ____
a. free love moment c. sexual revolution b. psychosexual development d. sexual response cycle