Piaget suggested that, in some cases, two children of the
same age may be at different skill levels in a specific domain of cognitive ability. This claim makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to provide an argument against the developmental schedule forwarded by Piaget's theory. This is a major issue related to the principle of
A) Occam's Razor.
B) ruling out rival hypotheses.
C) replicability.
D) falsifiability.
Answer: D
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Le Bon’s crowd psychology assumed that crowd members
a. engaged in interpretative, rather than circular, reactions. b. lost their social identities in the group. c. felt compelled to follow the norm that emerged in their group. d. were all like one another in some way. e. fell prey to the “law of mental unity”.
Greg has five young daughters. One time when he went shopping with his five girls, a stranger came up to Greg and said, "Wow, five girls! What's the matter? Didn't your wife want sons?" In regard to the determination of sex, what was incorrect with the assumption of the stranger's question?
A. It assumes that the Y chromosome is the sex chromosome for a male. B. The question assumes that the Y chromosome is a dominant allele. C. It assumes that the female determines the sex of the child, when, in fact, it's the male. D. It assumes that the Y chromosome is the sex chromosome for a female.
Rudy is a 16-year-old that likes to brag about his recent development of underarm hair. He says that he is a man now and that he is an adult. Rudy's development of underarm hair is an example of a(n)
a. adolescent growth spurt. c. secondary sex characteristic. b. primary sex characteristic. d. secular trend.
While descriptive methods often help researchers develop hypotheses about what causes or affects a given behavior, they do not
A) answer questions about relationships among variables. B) allow researchers to study behaviors in naturalistic settings. C) include techniques for studying infants. D) provide meaningful results with adolescents and adults.