On Christmas morning, 3-year-old Billy opens one of his gifts from his mother and finds a new sweater. Disappointed that it is not a toy, Billy frowns and throws the sweater aside in front of his mother with no regard for her feelings
In this example, Billy is demonstrating
a) centration.
b) egocentric thought.
c) conservation.
d) intuitive thought.
b
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a. quasi b. analytical c. descriptive d. predictive
In a study concerned with the Big Five factor profiles of juvenile delinquents and nondelinquents, Graziano and Ward found that the two primary predictors of students' healthy adjustment to school were:
a. Extraversion and Neuroticism b. Extraversion and Openness to Experience c. Neuroticism and Openness to Experience d. Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience
According to Erikson, from roughly ages 6 to 12, children go through the period characterized by efforts to meet the challenges presented by parents, peers, school, and the other complexities of the modern world. This stage is called __________
a) inferiority versus superiority b) industry versus inferiority c) social comparison d) puberty
In his partial replication of Milgram's obedience study, what did Burger (2009) find?
A. Very few of the participants were willing to deliver any shock whatsoever. B. Most of the participants were aware of the original Milgram study, and the study had to be canceled because the researchers could not find enough naïve participants. C. Participants were even more willing than in Milgram's study to deliver a maximum shock, and in many cases appeared to enjoy doing so. D. Participants were only slightly less willing to obey the experimenter's orders than those in Milgram's study.