Piaget used the three-mountain task to demonstrate which characteristic of preoperational thought?
A) artificialism
B) conservation
C) animism
D) egocentrism
D) egocentrism The child's inability to take another person's perspective is egocentrism.
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According to Martin Seligman, a condition resulting from the perception that we have no control over our environment is called:
a. basic anxiety. c. learned helplessness. b. the Jonah complex. d. depression.
An interviewer is asking people on the street questions about the mayor of their town. He tells them that the new mayor has a PhD in sociology, has specialized in women's and gender studies, and has published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals. The interviewer presents them with two situations and asks which one of them is more probable. He asks them if it is more probable that the
mayor is a women's rights activist, or a politician who is also a college professor. If the interviewees pick the first situation, which error in judgement are they committing? A) conjunction fallacy B) availability bias C) sunk-cost fallacy D) optimism bias
How does the method of transcranial magnetic stimulation of brain areas differ from magnetic inactivation?
A. Brain activation results from long, intense magnetic stimulation. B. Brain inactivation results from mild, brief magnetic stimulation. C. Brain inactivation results as the magnets are simply reversed. D. Brain activation results from mild, brief magnetic stimulation.
Sterilization laws beginning in the early 1900s remained on the books in the United States until the
A) 1940s. B) 1950s. C) 1960s. D) 1970s.