How do children's thoughts about others change in middle childhood, including a focus on psychological traits, advances in perspective taking, and the development of stereotyping?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Children at this age improve their understanding of other people's thoughts and behavior, are better able to anticipate other people's feelings, and increasingly are able to see themselves from others' perspectives.
2. Thinking about other people moves from observable behaviors ("He runs fast") to psychological traits ("He is nice").
3. In middle childhood, second-order false-belief reasoning allows children to understand that a person may hold false beliefs about others' beliefs.
4. Children at this age begin to develop social stereotypes around concepts such as race and ethnicity.
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a. one student has a stronger superego than the other. b. one student has more self-efficacy than the other. c. the students have different personality traits. d. the students have different histories of reinforcement and punishment.
Briefly describe the major events of puberty, and discuss the impact of the timing of the onset of puberty in males and females
What will be an ideal response?
For James, what was most essential to human evolution??
a. ?natural selection b. ?natural variations of a species c. ?survival of the fittest d. ?regression to the mean e. ?consciousness
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a. neurologist b. psychologist c. neuropsychologist d. cognitive neuroscientist