When her son Pete was 11 years old, Mrs. Galiewould allow him to go unsupervised with his
friends to the movies. Which one of the following is likely to be Mrs. Galie's response when her
daughter Gina becomes 11 years old?
a. She will allow her to go to the movies unsupervised.
b. She will not allow her to go to any movies except Disney ones.
c. She will pick which movies her daughter can see.
d. She will only allow her to go to the movies with adult supervision.
d. She will only allow her to go to the movies with adult supervision.
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a. continuous b. fixed interval c. variable interval d. fixed ratio
Low-birth-weight babies of educated parents are resilient and improve on intellectual deficits, while similar kids born to parents with less education. This outcome implies that
a. the quality of the postnatal environment can have a strong influence on the extent to which the development of low-birth-weight babies will be compromised. b. the healthcare available to healthy families provides effective treatment of low birth weight. c. low-income parents ignore the results of the Apgar test. d. reflexes are deficient in poor children.
Early theories of problem solving focused primarily on ______.
A. functional fixedness B. introspection C. trial and error D. systematic strategies
Each of us tends to choose environments or situations in which our existing personality traits will be reinforced or supported. Caspi and colleagues refer to this as _________
a. evocative transactions b. proactive transactions c. genetic transactions d. causal transactions