Jill learns that a monarch is a kind of butterfly, not a bird as she had first thought. This complete change in her concept of a monarch illustrates Piaget's idea of:
A) accommodation. B) assimilation.
C) equilibrium. D) conservation.
Answer: A
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A. Some genes are found in the mitochondria. B. Every body cell has 23 chromosomes. C. Ova and sperm each contain pairs of chromosomes. D. The sequences of nucleotides that make up our DNA differ among individuals by about 10%.
In class, Burke suddenly noticed that a classmate was wearing the same perfume as his first girlfriend. After identifying the perfume, Burke experienced warm memories associated with this relationship, illustrating the _____ approach to odor perception.
A) parts-based object recognition B) valence-centred C) object-centred D) place code
For children and adolescents, heritability estimates indicate that about half of the variance in their IQ scores is explainable by genetic differences
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following statements about the National Health and Social Life Survey conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago is false?
A. The researchers attempted to obtain a representative sample of the U.S. population. B. The results indicate that people in committed, one-partner relationships tend to have the most sex. C. The survey contained controversial questions regarding pornography, pedophilia, and sexual fetishes. D. About a third of the participants reported having sex only a few times, or not at all, in the preceding year.