Janis sees a bat flying over the lake and says, "Birdie"! Her mother says, "That flies like a bird, Janis, but that is a bat." Janis begins pointing saying, "Bat! Bat! Bat!" Piaget would say that this is an example of ________
a. assimilation.
b. preoperational thought.
c. accommodation.
d. egocentric thinking.
Answer: c
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Two-year-old Jose takes a section of the newspaper, climbs up on the couch, opens it, and appears to be reading, just as his father had done earlier that morning. According to Piaget, Jose is engaging in ______
Fill in the blank with correct word
Research indicates that medication prescribed for ADHD
a. increases grades. b. increases attention. c. decreases peer rejection. d. decreases activity level.
Sophia and Olivia meet for the first time in college when they are assigned to be roommates. They try unsuccessfully for hours to find something they might have in common. They are from different family backgrounds, Sophia is an only child, and Olivia is the oldest of four children. Sophia goes on dates every weekend, while Olivia rarely dates and spends most weekends studying. After separate visits to their therapists, they discover they have both been told they have a basic fear of men. Both deny this fear, but from the psychodynamic perspective, they share:
A. a conscious desire to increase their sexual impulses. B. a desire to suppress their inborn sexual drive. C. a lack of attention in puberty. D. inherited shyness.
What does it mean to say that the concept of life-span development implies plasticity?
What will be an ideal response?