At two months after conception, your head makes up half of your total body length, but at adulthood, it is only 12% to 13% of your height. Which principle does this illustrate?
A. proximodistal
B. biogenetic
C. cephalocaudal
D. orthogenetic
Answer: C
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a. The culture we grow up in affects our ability to use selective comparison to solve problems. b. Being exposed to a similar problem is the past helps the students’ problem solving. c. Both groups of students exhibited functional fixedness regarding the stories they hadheard in childhood. d. Every culture prepares its members to solve some types of problems more easily than others.
Which of these is NOT a component of the model of adaptive grieving dynamics?
A. Lamenting B. Heartening C. Restoration-oriented stressors D. Tempering
Using concrete rather than abstract concepts tends to improve reasoning accuracy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
One study found that less than _____ percent of parents of 6th graders thought their children had tried alcohol, yet _____ percent of the children said they had.
a. 5: 45 b. 3: 45 c. 1: 22 d. 1: 10