Cindy, a six-year-old girl, is playing with plastic cubes like the rest of the children in her class. In the class, everyone has their individual set of cubes and individual figures to construct. Cindy, however, interacts with her friend to understand how to stack the plastic cubes so that she can construct her own model. In this scenario, Cindy is engaged in _____.
A. onlooker play
B. solitary play
C. associative play
D. unoccupied play
Answer: C
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Jennie is struggling with whether to give in to peer pressure in order to fit in or whether to be herself, but not have many friends. This is an example of which psychosocial crisis?
a. Industry versus inferiority b. Trust versus mistrust c. Generativity versus stagnation d. Group identity versus alienation
A limitation of the liberation perspective is that:
a. it does not acknowledge the importance of power. b. it may lead to overlooking diversity within groups. c. globalization is reducing differences between groups. d. a bicultural approach is more adaptive.
Psychological hedonism may be described as
a. the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain for the greatest number of people. b. the pursuit of pleasure only. c. limited in explanatory usefulness due to subjectivity of its key concepts. d. the primary human motivator according to a preponderance of scientific evidence.
Which of the following is not a way in which parents, or more expert siblings and peers contribute to children’s symbolic play?
A. Young children are more likely to engage in symbolic play when they are playing with someone else rather than when they are playing alone. B. Mothers, in particular, bring out high levels of symbolic play in their children. C. Young children who interact with a more skilled partner who structures the situation appropriately for them advance in their skills faster than when such support is not provided. D. Young children are less likely to engage in symbolic play when they are playing with someone else rather than when they are playing alone.