Ten-month-old Cash has decided that he is going to get the cookie off the table. He pulls himself up the legs of the table and pulls on the tablecloth until the cookie falls into his hands. What substage is he in?
a. substage 1: simple reflexes
b. substage 2: first habits and primary circular reactions
c. substage 3: secondary circular reactions
d. substage 4: coordination of secondary schemes
D. He is in substage 4 . This is characterized by deliberate, coordinated actions.
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In working out his transference, Michael becomes defensive because he does not want to admit repressed thoughts and feelings into consciousness. Michael is showing:
a. flooding c. transference b. polarized thinking d. resistance
After a car accident, Astor is in a coma and Cody is in a persistent vegetative state. If the same brain area was implicated in each of their situations, it would most likely be the
A. hippocampus. B. reticular formation. C. cerebellum. D. thalamus.
The main reason that it is so important to identify children with developmental disorders as early as possible is that
A. medications are most effective when administered at an early stage of the disorder. B. skill deficits can be identified and addressed before they impact later development. C. family functioning often declines as the developmental disorder progresses. D. children are more receptive to therapy when they are young.
All of the following are accurate statements concerning the career of Ivan Pavlov EXCEPT for which one?
a. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on digestion. b. His observation of classical conditioning was accidental. c. His only training was in the field of psychology. d. He was successful in the development of a research strategy to study conditioning.