Piaget's stage of "formal operational thinking" has been the subject of many years of
cross-cultural research. This body of research has revealed that
a. this developmental stage is found to occur in the vast majority of the societies
studied.
b. individuals in many societies never exhibit this typeof thinking.
c. formal operational thinking is determined entirely by culture rather than
individual experience.
d. all adolescents and adults in Western technological cultures display formal
operational thinking.
b
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What will be an ideal response?
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A) scaffolding. B) situational empathy. C) social problem solving. D) emotional self-regulation.
Understanding the interactions between biology and environment is complicated by ________
a. the interplay of genes and chromosomes b. the fact that behavior genetics studies have not been as rigorous or complete in measuring genes as they have been in measuring the environment c. the fact that these two influences are impossibly intertwined and should no longer be studied as influences on development d. the fact that environmental contexts have multiple levels of potential influence on the child
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a. five b. 15 c. 20 d. 25