After a child's pet kitten runs away, her parents buy a new kitten. Although the new kitten is a different size and color, the child recognizes it as a kitten and understands how to interact with it
The child's response to the new kitten reflects the operation of Piaget's concept of
a) egocentrism.
b) assimilation.
c) accommodation.
d) object permanence.
B
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Healthy participants and participants with prefrontal cortex damage played a gambling game in which they selected cards from one of four decks. Two of the decks were associated with large wins and large losses (riskier), and the other two decks were associated with small wins and small losses (safer). At the beginning of the game, all participants chose cards from the four decks equally. With
extended play, the healthy participants chose more cards from the _____, whereas the participants with prefrontal cortex damage chose cards from _____. A) safer decks; the riskier decks B) safer decks; both sets of decks equally C) riskier decks; the safer decks D) riskier decks; both sets of decks equally
Cloward and Ohlin, in their book Delinquency and Opportunity, propose a ___________ theory of crime
A. structural B. subcultural C. biological D. psychoanalytic
Two pathways essential to wakefulness originate in the
A. reticular formation of the medulla. B. lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus. C. POA of the hypothalamus. D. reticular formation of the rostral pons.
The term item-mapping refers to an IRT-based method of
A. test construction that was first used for a high school geography achievement test. B. setting cut scores that entails a histographic representation of test items. C. setting cut scores that entails the use of experts rearranging items placed on maps by level of difficulty. D. setting cut scores that entails expert judgments based, in part, upon how culturally fair items are deemed to be.