Eighteen-month-old Joey, sitting at the breakfast table one morning, suddenly moves a piece of toast across his plate while saying "vroom, vroom!" This behavior most likely indicates that Joey
a. is in the sensorimotor stage
b. has been watching too much television with his older brother
c. is engaging in pretend/symbolic play
d. is demonstrating a form of social play
C
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b. internal continuity. c. external discontinuity. d. internal discontinuity.
Joe wanted to make a gelatin brain for his kids' Halloween party. If Joe was going to make the brain look realistic, he should color the gelatin for the cortex ______.
A. white B. gray C. red D. black
Which of the following examples describes a gene-environment interaction?
a. Exposure to poverty in childhood is associated with poor academic performance. b. A boy inherits a perfectionistic personality characteristic and tends to choose activities that have a low chance of failure, which actually reinforces his perfectionistic tendencies. c. Fair-skinned people are genetically more prone to develop skin cancer; however, if they avoid excessive sun exposure, this genetic predisposition may not lead to the development of skin cancer. d.A person's genetic risk for heart disease is compounded by an additional genetic risk for diabetes.
Freud said phobias were ___________, whereas Watson said phobias were __________.
A. learned; inherited B. repressed conflicts; learned C. sexual; unconscious D. conditioned; unconditioned