Which is true with regard to the effects of play on development?
a. Preschoolers who engage in considerable amounts of social pretend play tend to be more popular and more socially mature than those who do not.
b. Play contributes significantly to physical and social development, but has little impact on the development of cognitive skills.
c. While engagement in pretend play tends to stimulate creative thought processes, it tends to interfere with the development of logical thought.
d. Play contributes to the emotional development of preschoolers by helping children work through unresolved conflicts, but it detracts from children's intellectual development by keeping them from engaging in more productive academic tasks.
a
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a. In high-achieving schools, policies and regulations are implemented strictly to enforce discipline. c. Levels of self-efficacy of classroom teachers and ratings of the teachers by students mutually affect each other. b. Students in the East German collectivist culture scored higher in self-efficacy than those in the West German individualist culture. d. In low-achieving schools, teachers tend to cultivate self-efficacy among students by giving them achievable goals.
Why should aggression be understood as a form of social influence?
What will be an ideal response?
Who has the best chance of maintaining intellectual abilities into late adulthood?
Harriet, who is experiencing the "empty nest" syndrome Bert, who has recently retired and is planning "to do nothing but rest" Carol, who is well educated, recently divorced, and in financial difficulties Martin, who has a college education, a happy marriage, and a good retirement plan
Tantrums during toddlerhood, also known as the "terrible twos" are ____
a. universal across the world b. rarely seen in countries outside the West c. only seen in developing nations d. rarely seen in the United States