Vygotsky demonstrated how
A) higher-order thinking is the result of maturation in the prefrontal cortex.
B) both assimilation and accommodation contribute to cognitive development.
C) culture emphasizes particular tasks that adolescents are expected to accomplish.
D) adolescents progress from one qualitative stage of development to another.
C
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a. a lack of recognition. b. false positives. c. the serial position effect. d. retroactive redintegration.
Obsessions are ___, while compulsions are ____.
a. ?adaptive; maladaptive b. ?maladaptive; adaptive c. ?thoughts; behaviors d. ?behaviors; thoughts
Tracey is a high school student. Both her school and her church would be categorized at which level of the ecological levels of analysis?
a. organization b. macrosystem c. locality d. microsystem
While Dr. Jackson is recording the activity of a squid axon, he finds that a larger depolarizing shock is necessary on occasion in order to produce a new action potential. What is the most likely explanation for Dr. Jackson's observations?
A. The squid axon is such an artificial laboratory preparation, it cannot be expected to respond like an axon in a living animal. B. Dr. Jackson's second shock probably occurs during a relative refractory period. C. Dr. Jackson's second shock probably occurs during an absolute refractory period. D. The squid axon in the laboratory does not have functioning sodium-potassium pumps.