Piaget's notion of reflective thinking is closely related to the concept of ____________ studied by information-processing theorists

A) working memory
B) long-term store
C) metacognition
D) internalization


C) metacognition Information-processing psychologists call the ability to analyze one's own thoughts metacognition and, like Piaget, believe it plays an important role in mature thinking.

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happy the participants were. What are the conditions of the independent variable in this study? What will be an ideal response?

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Every time Joe picks up his cell phone, he lights up a cigarette. To get Joe to change the behavior, his therapist has Joe pick up his cell phone and put it down without lighting a cigarette. After 100 times, Joan no longer lights up a cigarette when he picks up his cell phone. This is an example of ______.

A. the threshold method B. incompatible stimuli method C. the fatigue method D. the habit method

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Oligodendrocytes form:

a. synapses. b. the blood-brain barrier c. myelin around axons. d. spines along dendrites.

Psychology

La belle indifférence is believed to occur in hysteria because __________.

A. negative feelings are displaced B. the apathy of depression sets in when anxiety is repressed C. the physical symptoms alleviate anxiety D. the person no longer has to deal with any underlying conflicts

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