What is the term that Piaget used for the process in which one state is changed into another?
a) transformation
b) conservation
c) centration
d) concrete operations
a
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Which term describes the perspective that seeks to identify the way individuals take in, use, and store information?
A. information processing approach B. social development model C. automatization of responses D. encoding-specificity principle
Skewed distributions with extreme scores at the high or low end of the distribution are often better represented by the ______.
A. mean B. median C. mode D. central tendency
In the United States, about _____ of every 100 children are victims of substantiated maltreatment
a. 1 b. 10 c. 5 d. 25
At the University of Chicago, German physiologist Jacques Loeb conducted studies on animal tropisms, or forced movements. What were his findings?
a. Animals are essentially passive until faced with specific environmental stimuli, to which they react in a stereotypical manner. b. Animals actively engage with their environment in preparation for potential environmental stimuli to which they can respond appropriately. c. The behavior of organisms is highly variable; they respond differently to the same physical stimuli depending upon their internal state. d. The behavior of organisms is highly consistent from simple to complex organisms.