During __________, children use their current schemes to interpret the external world, whereas in __________, children create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that their current ways of thinking do not capture the environment completely.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


assimilation; accommodation

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Dr. Klein wants to investigate the long-term effects of antidepressants in children. To do so, she randomly selects a group of subjects and follows them across five years. What type of study is this?

a. Naturalistic b. Cross-sequential c. Cross-sectional d. Longitudinal

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Some of the foreign-based corporations in Hong Kong require their employees who transfer to Hong Kong to learn something about the culture and the language, even though English is commonly spoken. These businesses are clearly concerned with errors associated with

a. cross-cultural bias. b. using the local work force. c. the halo effect. d. social facilitation.

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An emphasis on the unconscious and early childhood experience characterizes which school of psychology?

a. Behaviorism b. Structuralism c. Empiricism d. Psychodynamic e. Humanism

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According to the moral intuitionist perspective:

A) incest disgusts us because we consider it wrong. B) aversion to the suffering of others develops only after a child has learned the difference between right and wrong. C) people's feelings are guided by their moral reasoning. D) negative emotional reactions to others' pain begin early in life and guide moral reasoning.

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