Five-year-old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:

Related Mcqs:

1. In which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development will a child realize that when a volume of water is poured from a tall, narrow beaker, to a wide beaker, the volume remains the same even though it reaches a lower level?

   A. preoperational
   B. sensorimotor
   C. concrete operational
   D. formal operation

2. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 2,3 & 4
   C. 1,2 & 4
   D. 4

3. A child has leaned to avoid a furry, black cat. However, she still plays with her grandmother’s short-haired tabby. Her response demonstrates?

   A. negative transfer
   B. extinction
   C. discrimination
   D. successive approximation

4. Which of the following are commonly accepted dimensions of attribution? (Please highlight all the correct answers.) 1. Internal-external. 2. Stable-unstable. 3. Wide-narrow. 4. None of the above.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 4
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 1 & 3

5. Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. with heart pounding, hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recognizes that these are signs of the body’s fight of the body’s fight-or-flight response, which is controlled by the:

   A. empathetic division of the peripheral nervous system
   B. parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
   C. somatic division of the peripheral nervous system
   D. sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system

6. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

   A. between 3 and 5 years old
   B. able to conserve volume
   C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
   D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

7. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

8. A psychologist watches the rapid eye movements of sleeping subjects and wakes them to find they report that they were dreaming. She concludes that dreams are linked to rapid eye movement. this conclusion is based on:

   A. pure speculation
   B. direct observation
   C. deduction from direct observation
   D. prior prediction

9. Because she believes that boys are naughtier than girls, Mrs. Zumpano, a second-grade teacher, watches boys more closely than she watch girls for any signs of misbehavior. Mrs. Zumpano’s surveillance strategy best illustrates:

   A. the framing effect
   B. the availability heuristic
   C. confirmation bias
   D. functional fixedness

10. The basic understanding of the relationship between unconditioned response (UR) and conditioned response (CR) includes which of the following ideas?

    A. The UR and CR are not always the same response
    B. Organisms come to generally behave toward conditioned stimulus as they do unconditioned stimulus
    C. Stimulus situation
    D. The UR and CR are always the same response
    E. (a), (b) and (c)