A mother brings her five-year-old son to you for an evaluation.  She reports that since he had an accidental fall where he hit his head, he’s had difficulty with motor coordination.  Your first hypothesis about the part of the brain that may have been injured by the fall is the

You are seeing a family and you notice bruises on the son’s body.  The parents say that their child has been seen by a pediatrician, but that they forgot to mention the bruises to him.  When you ask the parents how the child got injured, the parents say that he “fell down the stairs,” but cannot provide any further details.  The boy is silent and withdrawn and seems afraid of you.  You should

In children with chronic illness, all of the following have been found to be correlated with the child’s level of adjustment, except:

You pour water from a short, fat glass into a tall, thin glass.  You ask a child if there is more water in the thin glass than there was in the fat glass.  The child says, “No.  The amount of the water has not changed.”  The child has attained at least the _____________ stage of cognitive development.

Bill G. experiments with barbiturates.  He starts with small doses.  Over time, he has to take larger and larger doses in order to experience the desired effect.  Bill is experiencing

Which of the following would it be most important to attend to in differentiating Alzheimer’s disease from Vascular Dementia?

Kohlberg’s theory of moral development focuses on moral reasoning.  With regard to the linkage between moral reasoning and moral action, Kohlberg would most likely agree with which of the following?

Kohlberg’s theory of moral development focuses on moral reasoning.  With regard to the linkage between moral reasoning and moral action, Kohlberg would most likely agree with which of the following?

Children’s memory for early events

According to Nancy Chodorow (1978) roles in society will change only when we have a system of parenting in which men and women are equally responsible for child rearing.  Chodorow feels: