A school aged child warns you not to knock over a domino because it will knock over all of the
dominoes that she has carefully arranged in a long chain. What ability has this child acquired?
A) formal operational thought B) relationship transitivity
C) class inclusion D) assimilation
B
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According to your authors, which of the following would promote the BEST growth of cognitive skills? a. Once a child masters basic addition, move right to subtraction
b. Once a child masters basic addition, move to slightly more difficult addition. c. Once a child masters basic addition, move to multiplication. d. Once a child masters basic addition, keep the child at that level to consolidate skills.
The minimal difference between two stimuli that people can reliably detect is the
a. absolute threshold. b. difference threshold. c. perceptual threshold. d. sensitivity threshold. e. Weber's constant.
Suppose that you are looking at a complex, detailed painting of a dog. Which of the following working-memory tasks would interfere most with your ability to form a clear image of this painting?
a. hearing the sound of a barking dog b. creating an auditory image of a favorite song c. creating a mental image of a dog that you actually see every day d. adding three single-digit numbers together
The belief that all living things have an unseen essence that gives them identity is referred to as a. ordinality
b. essentialism. c. animism. d. the cardinality principle.