Compared with preschoolers, school-age children are
A) physically less pliable.
B) physically more elastic.
C) more agile, but less able to balance.
D) stronger, but less agile.
Answer: B
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A. provides opportunities to learn useful skills that transfer to future jobs B. allows Val less flexibility in her hours, so she can no longer participate in extracurricular activities C. requires longer hours, which impacts the time she has to complete her schoolwork D. interferes with her social activities, which allows her to focus on homework in school
A rat in a Skinner box is going through several training sessions where the light that illuminates the box is alternately turned on and off. When the light is on, a bar press will produce food. When the light is off, bar pressing goes unrewarded. We soon observe that the rat presses vigorously when the light is on and ignores the bar when the light is off. This illustrates
a. stimulus control. b. systematic extinction. c. stimulus generalization. d. a resistance to extinction.
A test that minimizes bias by using questions that would not penalize people whose background, social class, or language differs from that of the middle or upper class in a society is a(n) __________ test
a) aptitude b) mainstreamed c) culture-fair d) valid
If Calvin is average in terms of his looks, he may not ask the gorgeous Giselle to go on a date with him, because he believes that he will be rejected or that eventually the relationship would not work out
Thus, the ________ affected Calvin's decision to not ask Giselle to go out with him. a. diffusion of responsibility theory b. principle of proximity c. fundamental attribution error d. expectancy-value theory e. Asch effect