The ability to recognize themselves in the mirror:

Sternberg’s “triarchic” theory of intelligence proposes that there are three kinds of intelligences:

Formal education is the most structured type of explicit education.

Stage 3 (“good-child morality”) is the dominant mode of reasoning about moral questions until people reach their mid-twenties.

No-nonsense parenting is characterized by a mixture of high parental control, including physical restraint and punishment, and low affection.

If an investigator found a +.50 correlation between parents’ vocabularies and their children’s vocabularies, it would mean that:

Top-down processing is an approach to education that starts with teaching basic skills and moves on to more complex tasks.

Sagi and his colleagues suspected that high rates of insecure attachment among children raised in Israeli kibbutzim were caused by:

Children rated as falling into the ____________ category of attachment are indifferent to the presence of their mother in the “strange situation,” while children in the ____________ category stay close to their mother and appear anxious even when she is near.

Parents who were abused as children are more likely than not to abuse their own children.