Piaget's stage theory assumes that:
a. all children pass through certain stages at a specified age.
b. all children pass through a series of 6 stages.
c. all children pass through stages in the same order.
d. children often skip some of the stages.
c
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A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25
In many individualistic, Western societies there is a tendency for people to acquire the traits of:
a. ambition, cooperation, and altruism b. independence, ambition, and competition c. dependence, altruism, and competition d. ambition, nurturance, and cooperation
Behavioral research suggests that insight
a. actually involves a sudden mental flash of understanding the problem that one is attempting to solve. b. is due to an illusory correlation between behavior and reinforcement. c. involves classical conditioning and trial and error learning. d. involves combining and adapting previously learned behaviors in novel situations. e. is due to a correlation between positive reinforcers and punishers.
An experimenter wanted to test the hypothesis that women who eat large meals are not liked as well as women who eat smaller quantities of food by using the one factor repeated measures design. Participants in the study watched a videotape of a woman eating a small nutritious snack, a normal meal, or a huge meal while talking to another person. Each participant viewed three different versions of
the videotape, each with a different woman (Pat, Sue, and Deb) eating a different amount of food. After viewing the videotape, participants filled out a questionnaire about how much they liked each of the women they had seen in the videos. In this experiment, the null hypothesis would state that _____. a. women are not liked differently if they eat different amounts of food b. women who eat more are liked less c. women who eat less are liked less d. women are liked equally unless they overeat