Nine-year-old Esther helps her mother rolls pieces of cookie dough into balls
Esther notices that after she rolls each ball, it somehow looks smaller than when it was just a piece of dough! But then she realizes that rolling has only changed the shape, without changing the amount of dough. By carefully watching the effect of rolling, Esther shows that she understands
A) dynamic transformations.
B) working memory.
C) inventive spelling.
D) subitizing.
A) dynamic transformations. Esther learns to recognize that the static stages (the piece of dough and ball of dough) are related to each other through the dynamic transformation of rolling.
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a. self-awareness b. tendency to engage in self-defeating behavior c. capacity to delay gratification d. learned helplessness
The form of treatment that has been found to be most successful for individuals with intellectual disability is a. interpersonal therapy
b. behavioral approach to skills training. c. medication. d. the cognitive approach to self-care activities.
Barry goes to a psychologist who will try to understand Barry's frame of reference in interpreting the world and to improve Barry's self-image. Barry's psychologist is most likely utilizing which approach to therapy?
a. humanistic b. behaviorist c. psychoanalytical d. functionalist
While TIAs often do not have long-term effects, they are
A. rarely predictive of later strokes. B. strong predictors of later strokes. C. predictive of further TIAs but not full strokes. D. negatively correlated with the occurrence of later strokes.