According to Piaget, when a concrete-operational thinker is presented with the "balance beam" problem he or she
a. can appreciate the significant impact of both weight and distance from center, but cannot understand their inverse relationship.
b. can appreciate the significant impact of weight but not distance from center.
c. can appreciate the significant impact of distance from center but not weight.
d. can appreciate the significant impact of both weight and distance from center, and can understand their inverse relationship.
a
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a. True b. False
Bailey, a boy who displays a mild intellectual disability, is struggling with a word problem about a car driving from one point to another. The problem is illustrated with a diagram of the car's route. Which of the following is the most likely reason for Bailey's difficulty with the problem??
a. ?Bailey is confused by the diagram. b. ?Bailey cannot keep all the facts in his short-term memory long enough to figure out the problem. c. ?Bailey does not know how to generalize the strategies he has learned for solving this kind of math problem to the particular problem before him. d. ?Bailey, like most children with mild intellectual disabilities, has poor iconic memory.
Savannah knows that as a manager in her workplace, she is the person who needs to be able to make decisions and support her staff. At home, she is aware that as a spouse, she needs to discuss decisions with her partner and not make them on her own. Savannah is capable of ______.
A. pragmatic thought B. autonomous thought C. dualistic thinking D. relativistic thinking
Explain the importance of hypotheses and theories to scientific research
What will be an ideal response?