A child is shown two identical balls of clay. Then an adult squashes one ball into a pancake shape. She then asks the child if one of the shapes contains more clay and the child answers, "Yes, the pancake does." In Piagetian terms, the child has not yet reached:
A. sensorimotor stage
B. concrete operations stage
C. object permanence
D. decentricity
Answer: B
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A. genetics B. nonshared environmental factors C. innate predispositions D. parental practices
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a. hypothalamus c. cerebrum b. thalamus d. cerebellum
Kabat-Zinn and Skillings examined the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction program on stress hardiness and sense of coherence in hospital patients. What were the results of their study?
A. Hardiness was unchanged by the intervention, but coherence improved. B. Hardiness improved but coherence remained unchanged. C. Neither hardiness nor coherence improved over the course of the intervention. D. Both hardiness and coherence improved over the course of the intervention.
Visual information from the dorsal and ventral streams eventually travels to which cortical area?
A. prefrontal cortex B. hippocampus C. occipital Lobe D. lateral geniculate nucleus