Current research on infant cognition yields broad agreement on which of the following?
A) Most cognitive changes of infancy are abrupt.
B) Various aspects of infant cognition change unevenly.
C) Young babies construct all mental representations out of sensorimotor activity.
D) The cognitive changes of infancy are stagelike.
B
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a. more positive and more predictive of job performance. b. more positive but less predictive of job performance. c. more negative and more predictive of job performance. d. more negative and less predictive of job performance.
What is a disadvantage of a past temporal orientation?
A. People may not think ahead about the potential consequences of our behaviors. B. People might approach life in a conservative and overly cautious manner. C. People might derive pleasure in our relationships that come from just being with others. D. People may suffer the consequences of hedonistic adventures such as injuries.
Why did the conditioning by the nauseating effect of radiation affect only drinking
in the radiation chamber, and not other avoidance responses? (a) the water tasted different in the radiation chambers, and rats are prepared to associate taste with illness (b) the shock in the radiation chambers was not associated with any stimuli other than taste (c) the light in the radiation chamber that served as a discriminative stimulus was lit only when the rats were drinking the water (d) the radiation served as a negative reinforcement for drinking
For Freud, much of our behavior is controlled by ______
a. unconscious desires b. environmental stimuli c. mental Gestalts d. mental associations