What is a reason that infants who have been sleeping through the night start waking up again between when they are between 18 and 24 months old?
a. They become more aware that they are sleeping by themselves.
b. They have more nightmares.
c. They watch too much television.
d. They drink too many liquids before bedtime.
A. Toddlers develop a more definite sense of themselves and others as they approach age 2, and if they sleep in a bed separate from their parents they become more aware of this separation and more intentional about relieving it by summoning a parent or going into the parents' room.
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In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Max Ringelmann observed men as they pulled on a rope either alone, as part of a small group, or as part of a large group. He found that as the size of the group increased, ____
a. individual effort increased b. individual effort decreased c. the task took longer to complete d. the task took less time to complete
A psychologist, studying pilot trainees, picks a select group of trainees who is hopefully representative of all other trainees. The group of trainees being studied by this psychologist is collectively known to researchers as a __________
a. sample b. population c. target group d. control group
In the 1970's, information-processing psychologists combined their efforts to understand cognition with other professionals such as philosophers, linguists, engineers, and computer scientists, thus creating the field of:?
a. ?artificial intelligence b. ?information theory c. ?cognitive science d. ?ecological psychology
In 1999, what did Georgia governor Zell Miller propose doing in order to affect "the spatial, temporal reasoning that underlies math and engineering and even chess" and to help "those trillions of brain connections to develop"?
What will be an ideal response?