When a child understands that a lump of cookie dough contains the same amount of dough whether it is rolled into a ball or stretched out flat, the child has attained knowledge of __________
a) identity
b) symbolic function
c) functionality
d) egocentric thought
Answer: a
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Conner is 4 years old. He has developed a strong attachment to his mother and sees his father as a rival for her affections. According to Freud, which of the following stages is Connor in?
a. Phallic b. Latency c. Genital d. Fixation
The fate of premature and low-birth-weight infants
a. depends solely on their biological condition. b. depends solely on the quality of their postnatal environment. c. depends on their biological condition and their postnatal environment. d. is unrelated to their biological condition or their postnatal environment.
"Raindrops keep falling on my head. And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothing seems to fit!" These lyrics to a popular song describe a very uncomfortable sleeping arrangement!
There are several ways this problem can be solved. If the singer chooses to go out in the morning and buy a bigger bed, this would be similar to the Piagetian concept of __________. a. assimilation b. accommodation c. schema transformation d. adaptation
Obtaining a desired response by reinforcing successively closer approximations of the response is called
a) shaping. b) modeling. c) operant conditioning. d) classical conditioning.