A child in the preoperational stage of development often has trouble with the concept of:
A) conservation.
B) assimilation.
C) accommodation.
D) object permanence.
A) conservation.
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a. sharing c. comforting b. competing d. gossip
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A) openness B) conscientiousness C) neuroticism D) agreeableness
The word "generalize" is used in different, but related, ways by psychologists
When one says that "the laws of operant conditioning generalize," it means that (a) an organism conditioned in one situation will tend to make the same conditioned response in a similar situation (b) an organism conditioned in one situation will tend to make the same conditioned response in all situations, even completely dissimilar ones (c) the laws discovered by investigations with one organism will be relevant to the behavior of other organisms (d) the laws are "nonspecific," that is, they are too general to be useful in predicting behavior
Which of the following are the two significant ways that neurons change during the first years of life?
Myelination occurs rapidly. Specialization occurs within various abilities. Brain cells multiply dramatically. Connectivity among neurons increases.