Four-year-old Kendra cannot understand that a "skinny" glass and a "fat" glass can hold the same amount of juice. She immediately grabs what she perceives as the glass containing more juice and leaves the other one for her little brother
Kendra is in the __________ stage of development and has not yet mastered the concept of __________
a) sensorimotor; object permanence.
b) preoperational; deferred imitation.
c) preoperational; conservation.
d) concrete operations; decentering.
c
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A. we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received. B. we perceive size to remain the same size even when objects move to different distances. C. it is easier to perceive vertical and horizontal orientations. D. feature detectors are likely to create a clear perception of an object.
According to the sociocognitive explanation of dissociative identity disorder, therapists have ________
a. focused too much attention on allowing personalities to reveal themselves and not enough on treatment. b. found that most of the patients have distorted perceptions and irrational behavior. c. let too many severe cases go unrecognized, undiagnosed, and untreated. d. rewarded patients with attention and praise for revealing more and more personalities.
What is a lap child, a knee child and a yard child?
What will be an ideal response?
The forerunners of psychology developed the theory of phrenology, which in Greek means:
a. a map of thoughts. b. a map of behavior. c. study of the mind. d. study of mental diseases.