How does Piaget interpret the four- to eight-month-old's interest in kicking a hanging toy and causing it to bounce?
a. assimilation to sucking reflexes
b. association based on memory
c. a function of visual perception
d. an active exploration of cause-effect relationships
D
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a. biological c. cognitive-behavioral b. psychobiodynamic d. sociocultural
Dr. Halpern tells his graduate student, Dwight, that he'll need to deliver the lecture in Halpern's psychology class today. When Halpern tells him that the lecture is on olfaction, Dwight knows he'll be talking about which sense?
a. taste b. touch c. vision d. hearing e. smell
The brain waves typical of NREM sleep appear to be the result of
A. activity progressing from the pons to the lateral geniculate nucleus to the occipital cortex. B. activity in the POA of the hypothalamus. C. synchronization of cortical neurons by the thalamus. D. desynchronization of cortical neurons by the thalamus.
The self-serving attribution bias suggests that we are more likely to make _________ attributions for our successes, and ___________ attributions for failures.
a) Internal; internal b) External; internal c) Internal; external d) Single; multiple