A 9-year-old would be in what Piagetian stage? Describe two tasks that they would be able to do that they could not do at the previous stage
What will be an ideal response?
The child is in concrete operations. They can now master all conservation tasks because they no longer center on one object (i.e., decenter) and they have a better understanding of language. They can classify and can seriate items in terms of length, width, and color.
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All but which of the following are examples of secondary sex characteristics?
a. Development of the breasts b. Growth of pubic hair c. Growth of underarm hair d. Growth of the testicles
When using the scientific method, after supporting your original hypothesis, you most often:
A. refine your hypothesis so that you can further explore the behavior of interest. B. run your study a second time to reconfirm your hypothesis. C. discard the original hypothesis entirely, and develop a second one on the same issue to test. D. move on to a new research area.
When a psychologist wishes to generalize results to an entire population, he or she would use statistics
a. descriptive b. inferential c. holistic d. correlational
Tara worked late one night. Next morning, when leaving for work, she started searching for her car keys frantically as she could not find them. She then started tracing the things she did the previous night after she entered her home to remember where she kept the keys. Which of the following steps of memory formation was Tara most likely relying on?
A. Storage B. Encoding C. Consolidation D. Retrieval