Would 3-year-olds enjoy the game of peek-a-boo? Would you expect to see cultural variations? Explain
What will be an ideal response?
By the time children are 3, they have acquired object permanence and therefore know that even though an object is hidden (in this case, the person's face), it still exists, so they would not find this game to be very exciting. Toddlers of this age all over the world would probably find this game to be boring from the onset.
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A study on the development of wisdom in young and elderly women by Staudinger, Smith, and Baltes (2001) found that
a. wisdom is quite common in old age. b. expertise is a better predictor of wisdom than age. c. age predicts wisdom. d. life experiences have little to do with the expression of wisdom.
Kateria stares at an image of the U.S. flag with the stars black, the field around the stars yellow, and the stripes black and green. She then stares at a white sheet of paper. The afterimage of a red, white, and blue flag is explained by which theory of color vision?
a. trichromatic b. opponent-process c. accommodation d. gate control
What are "metamemory" and "metacognition," and what developmental trends are evident with these mental skills?
What will be an ideal response?
Hans' mother told him that it is wrong to lie, so Hans thinks people shouldn't lie because then they won't get punished. Hans is in Kohlberg's stage called
a. interpersonal norms. c. obedience orientation. b. instrumental orientation. d. social contract orientation.