A nursing one-month-old infant may grasp crudely at his mother's breast while feeding. That same child at the age of one year will probably easily hold a bottle or cup, placing it to his lips, and then putting it down when he is done. This change in ability to use the hands and fingers demonstrates advances in
a. gross motor skills
b. locomotion
c. fine motor skills
d. concrete operations
c
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An individual characterizing what Erikson called "stagnation" is unable to a. make meaningful appraisals concerning hassles
b. form a superego. c. contribute to a society's continuation. d. think in an encapsulated manner.
Hank has a brain problem that has gradually developed during the past three years. Hank most likely ____
a. ?has a neurodegenerative disease b. ?sustained traumatic brain injury c. ?had a cerebrovascular accident d. ?suffers from delirium
Although there is a 50 percent divorce rate, people still readily get married every year. These decisions probably would not occur if people did not
a. ignore the base rate. b. use the representativeness heuristic. c. frame this event very broadly. d. use a random search strategy for making decisions.
Early attachment theories state that a mother is rewarding to her infant because she provides the food. This was disproven with Harlow's experiments using _________
a. monkeys b. cats c. humans d. chicks