Someone who understands that objects maintain their weight and volume after changes in shape, but has trouble answering abstract or hypothetical questions, is in which of Piaget's stages?
a. Preoperational
b. Concrete operations
c. Sensorimotor
d. Formal operations
b
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One might suspect that people who make anonymous donations are lower than other donors in:
a. empathy b. the need for approval c. self-esteem d. cognitive processing capacity e. reparative altruism
The cognitive structure that organizes the knowledge, feelings, and beliefs that constitute
the self-concept is called a. the core self. b. the self-schema. c. the central trait. d. the self. e. self-esteem.
Professor Dorrough explains to her class that the purpose of the eye movements during REM sleep is
A. to direct the eyes during dreaming. B. to reduce emotional stress. C. to maintain sleep in spite of high levels of brain activity. D. currently unknown.
In contrast to Piaget's approach, information-processing researchers
A) focus on multiple kinds of intelligences. B) consider the specific processes by which people acquire and use information to which they are exposed. C) focus on how people make cognitive advances from one stage to the next. D) seek to identify the universal, broad milestones in cognitive development.