Larry notices that his son Tate is having a great time playing near the kitchen sink. When Larry asks Tate what he is doing, Tate responds, "It is fun to look at two different-size glasses, imagine water pouring back and forth between them, and knowing that the amount of water stays the same even though the glass shapes differ.". Piaget would describe Tate's comments as indicating that he has
acquired
a. animism.
b. egocentrism.
c. irreversibility.
d. a mental operation.
d
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Steven attends the Boys and Girls Club in his neighborhood every day after school, which helps foster his resilience. What characteristic associated with resilience does this include?
A. family factors B. community factors C. school factors D. individual factors
Techniques such as meta-analysis are useful in psychology because:
a. they help reduce unintended changes in subjects' behavior due to cues given by the experimenter. b. they allow for the careful study of behavior in schools, workplaces, and other natural contexts. c. they provide a range of values within which the mean of a population is likely to lie. d. rarely does one study alone prove anything, and this technique analyzes data from many studies.
In predicting which children are the most likely to become alcoholics, the more consistent procedure would be to:
a. Look for a change in the P3 dip of the evoked potential b. Examine the effects of the GABAB receptor c. Look for decreased high frequency EEG patterns d. Study personality and social factors that would put children at risk
Treatment for autism is most similar to the treatment for
A. mental retardation B. learning disorders C. personality disorders D. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder