Traditional behaviorists like John Watson believed that __________ is the supreme force in development
A) environment
B) heredity
C) sexuality
D) early experience
A
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Because Baby Eddie has a pet dog, he thinks all animals have four legs and a tail, bark and are furry. The first time he sees a cat, this theory works until the cat meows. Baby Eddie must now change his original idea. This change in Baby Eddie's thinking so that he now knows that some animals called dogs bark and some animals called cats meow illustrates
a. assimilation. b. accommodation. c. abstraction. d. object permanence.
Between SSRI and tricyclic antidepressant medications, which has the greater effectiveness?
a. They tend to have the same effectiveness. b. Tricyclics are more effective, but SSRIs are more popular because they are less expensive. c. SSRIs are more effective with women, and Tricyclics are more effective with men. d. Tricyclics are more effective with women, and SSRIs are more effective with men.
Rutter has proposed five general principles concerning how genes and the environment
interact in producing psychological, personality, and physical differences. One of these principles is that individuals may process information and experiences differently. This is similar to the general developmental principle of a. nature. b. inborn biases. c. nurture. d. internal models of experience.
Your sister called last evening complaining that her 10-year-old daughter is frequently playing video games while watching television, which your sister thinks is a ridiculous amount of "media multitasking."
She is wondering if her daughter has an attention problem. What would you tell her? a. Many children this age engage in media multitasking. b. Your niece probably does have some attention problems. This behavior is quite unusual. c. Only children with attention problems engage in media multitasking. d. Engaging in too much media multitasking will lead to dementia.