Which of the following is an experiment that tests a child's ability to understand conservation of length?
A. Four sandwiches in a 5-foot-long row is the same number of sandwiches as four sandwiches in a 10-foot-long row.
B. A stack of papers has the same amount of paper after it has been shredded.
C. A foot-long sandwich is as long as a foot-long sandwich placed slightly to the left.
D. Five tennis balls adjacent to each other occupy the same area as when they are spread apart from each other.
Answer: C
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Which of the following students provides the most accurate statement about employment in traditionally female occupations?
a. Marco: "The research demonstrates that a single woman in the United States can live fairly comfortably on a salary of about $7 an hour, as long as she works 40 hours a week.". b. Jian: "The majority of women in Western Europe are agricultural workers, whereas in most African countries, the majority are service workers.". c. Stacey: "Immigrant women who are hired to do domestic work are generally hired at a low salary, and they are expected to work long hours.". d. Thomas: "In Asian and Latin American countries, many women work in sweatshops, but there are no sweatshops in the United States or Canada because they are illegal.".
James worked for three years for a company in which the supervisors constantly criticized the employees, promoted their friends, and unfairly set work schedules. It has now been seven years since James worked for this company, and he cannot seem to remember the names of the people he worked with or even the details of the unfair treatment he received. James' forgetting is most likely due to
a. memory decay. b. disuse. c. redintegration. d. repression.
Behavior that is intended to help others is often referred to as
A) bystander behavior. B) compliant behavior. C) prosocial behavior. D) obedient behavior.
The theory suggesting that humans are genetically prewired to learn language at certain times and in particular ways is known as the ________ approach to language development.
A. prescriptive B. learning-theory C. interactionist D. nativist