Lionel's ability to wait until after dinner to ask for a cookie, instead of just grabbing one the minute they were ready, is an example of his improved
A. executive functioning.
B. conservation skills.
C. diet.
D. physical development.
Answer: A
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Explain how adolescents manage and deploy mental resources to their schoolwork and other interest areas.
What will be an ideal response?
Five-year-old Nathan pours juice from a tall glass into a shorter one. He then gives the short glass to Vince. Threeyear-old Vince is upset because he now believes he has less juice than when it was in the tall glass. This aspect of preoperational thought is called
a. egocentrism. b. precausal thinking. c. transductive reasoning. d. irreversibility.
According to Erikson, a teenager is most likely to achieve his or her identity by a. becoming more egocentric
b. using learned helplessness. c. becoming crystallized. d. using hypothetical reasoning skills.
Why did Hermann Helmholtz and his fellow students secretly rebel against Johannes Müller's views?
A. The students believed in natural selection while Müller believed in intelligent design B. The students searched for strictly physical and non-vitalist explanations for biological processes C. The students were strong and life-long believers in nature philosophy. D. The students and Müller disagreed over the speed of travel of nerve impulses