Kwame is a normally developing 4-year-old. He remembers playing with a toy fire engine at his cousin's house the previous day
Although he didn't have his favorite stuffed animal with him when he played with the fire engine, Kwame can imagine putting the bear on the fire engine and giving it a ride. These thoughts and memories demonstrate
A) conservation.
B) egocentrism.
C) preoperational thought.
D) scaffolding.
C) preoperational thought. In preoperational thought, the child can remember what the toy looked like yesterday, imagine playing with it in a way they have never tried before, and even imagine what it tastes like without needing to put it in their mouths.
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a. occupational segregation. b. comparable worth. c. entitlement. d. denial of personal disadvantage.
An association between child weight and hours of television watched
a. was found cross-culturally. b. was found for boys, but not for girls. c. proves that TV causes children to be overweight. d. was not found.
Which of the following psychotheorists is NOT considered a neo-Freudian??
a. ?Adler b. ?Jung c. ?Anna Freud d. ?Horney e. None of the choices are correct; they are all considered neo-Freudian.?
Unlike sudden pain from an injury, chronic pain is accompanied by greater activation in a. the thalamus
b. the prefrontal cortex. c. the somatosensory cortex. d. periaqueductal gray.