Describe Piaget’s four stages of maturation.
What will be an ideal response?
Piaget demonstrated that a child’s interactions with the environment become more
complex and adaptive as its cognitive structure becomes more articulated through
maturation and experience. From birth to about age 2, the child is in the sensorimotor
stage where the infant develops associations between sensations and actions. From
about 2 to around 7, the child is in the preoperational stage. This stage is when the
child begins to understand how the world works and is organized, as well as how to
speak and act within such constraints. The child is in the concrete operations stage
from around age 7 to 11-12. Problem-solving skills related to tangible objects further
develops during this period, but problem-solving skills involving abstract ideas do not
emerge until the final stage—the formal operations stage.
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a. a transgendered person may decide to live as a man, to live as a woman, or to create another category for themselves. b. someone cannot be categorized as a transgendered person unless this person has had the appropriate surgery. c. by 2008, only 20 US colleges and universities had an official policy that there should be no discrimination against transgendered people. d. most people have more positive attitudes about genital surgery for an adult, compared to their attitudes about genital surgery for an intersexed infant.
Lev _______________ believed that development is essentially an apprenticeship in which children develop as they work alongside skilled adults, including their parents and teachers
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As women began to enter psychology in greater numbers in the early 1970s, they began to document evidence of a pervasive bias in the research methods that were being used. Describe the biases that these feminist psychologists documented
What will be an ideal response?
A repetitive, ritualistic behavior that a person feels driven to perform is called a(n) ________
a. compulsion b. obsession c. impulse d. delusion