A researcher recorded conversations of 4-year-olds and parents at a zoo. She found that children took many opportunities to learn about animals as living things by __________.
A. listening to their parents lecture them about the animals' habits
B. asking an adult questions about biological processes
C. asking an adult questions about the names of the animals
D. asking an adult to read the signs on each cage
Answer: B
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a. The MIX gene must be recessive. b. The MIX gene must be dominant. c. Scott may or may not pass down the gene for MIX disorder to his children. d. Scott will pass down the MIX disorder to his children, but they may not get the disease.
Dewey and Lewin defined psychology as the study of how individuals are related to…
a. One another. b. Their sociocultural environment. c. Their past experiences. d. None of the above
The Chinese Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the year ____
a. 1981 c. 2001 b. 1995 d. 2010
In the context of the brain's development, which of the following statements is true of lateralization?
A. It refers to the specialization of function in one hemisphere of the cerebral cortex or the other. B. It refers to the expansion of dendritic connections that facilitates the spreading of neural pathways in infant development. C. It refers to the categorization of the areas of the brain based on ridges and valleys in the cortex. D. It refers to the process of encasing axons of neurons in the brain with fat cells.