Five-year-old Michael visits a farm for the first time and mistakes the cows he sees there for horses, like he has seen on television. Michael's error best illustrates the process that Piaget referred to as:
a. accommodation
b. object permanence
c. centration
d. assimilation
D
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You are completing a research project on the history of mental illness for your psychology course. Based on your reading, if you visited an asylum in sixteenth-century Europe, you would likely find __________.
A. a place that mixed together the mentally ill, the poor, criminals, and the physically ill B. exorcisms being done by priests C. a place where people were given good food, work, and rest, so that they could recover D. a warehouse of mentally ill people living and dying in conditions of filth and cruelty
Eldon's delusions frighten him and cause him to become angry. It is likely that ____
a. he will become violent b. he will never be able to challenge them c. often he will purposely enter situations he perceives to be dangerous, where he will encounter his delusions head on d. some of his delusions seem plausible and others are extremely bizarre
Tests that measure a person's current level of knowledge or competence in a particular subject are called:
a. standardized tests b. aptitude tests c. multiphasic inventory tests d. achievement tests
The __________ describes a person's ability to better retrieve information when in the same situation in which the information was first encoded
a. state dependency effect b. context effect c. retrieval bolstering effect d. law of effect