______ is an important measure for skewed distributions, where the mean is influenced by extreme scores in the distribution.

A. Mean
B. Median
C. Mode
D. Central tendency


Answer: A

Psychology

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Punishment by application is another name for _______________ punishment

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Follow-up research on Piaget's preoperational stage indicates that most 4-year-olds understand ______.

A. abstract concepts B. mental strategies C. that language can be used to solve problems D. that inanimate objects are not alive

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Piaget mistakenly believed that:

A) children begin to grasp the concept of object permanence during the sensorimotor stage. B) during the stage of concrete operations, children understand conservation. C) an understanding of self-awareness does not appear until the formal operational stage. D) preoperational children cannot take another person's point of view.

Psychology

Name the theorist who believed that infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting. He/she proposed the dynamic systems theory to explain these findings.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Psychology