A major concept of Piaget's that has been questioned by more recent psychologists is
a. stages. c. operations.
b. schemes. d. object permanence.
A
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Your textbook describes a study in which parents rated their newborn child on a variety of dimensions. The results showed that
a. parents of newborn girls rated their daughters as being somewhat more delicate, compared to parents of newborn boys. b. on every tested dimension, there were very large differences between the ratings of daughters and the ratings of sons. c. surprisingly, parents rated their daughters and their sons as being equally feminine. d. parents actually rated their daughters and their sons as being similar on all the tested dimensions.
The range for a data set is:
a. the difference between the largest and smallest scores b. the arithmetic average of the set of scores c. the most frequently occurring score d. the middle point in the set of scores
Your mother wants to know what you have learned about the usefulness of psychotherapy. Which of the following would you most likely tell her?
a. If you believe in it, it will work for you. b. It is impossible to conduct research into the effectiveness of psychotherapy. c. Meta–analytic research has shown that psychotherapy is effective. d. Recent research has shown that the rate of improvement among people in psychotherapy was not greater than the rate of "spontaneous remission.".
Which is involved in all sensory processes?
(a) waves, such as in vision and audition (b) transduction of the environmental energy into neural impulses (c) mechanical changes (d) simple processes and systems arising from complex elements