Noah’s mother believes that Noah, a nine-month-old, is still in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. To test this belief, which of the following could she try?

What is the so-called magic number with respect to working memory?

Trait theories, like the five-factor theory, are important because they

A child perseverates (or repeats) in her response, searching for an item in the location from where it was last recovered rather than its new location. Piaget called this behavior __________.

According to psychoanalytic theory, boys’ fear of castration is most closely associated with:

Which of the following describes a social norm?

The participants in Zimbardo’s simulated prison study at Stanford University:

Rachel’s dog loves meat and salivates when he sees it. Rachel repeatedly shows her dog a picture of a circle before showing him a piece of meat. Soon, the dog salivates to the picture of the circle. When Rachel shows her dog a picture of an oval, the dog does not salivate, which is best explained by

Jennifer is reading her textbook. As her eyes scan the page, each visual image is retained for less than a second in her

While he is in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, Andrew tries to classify infants’ attachment based on their behavior. He is certain that the baby girl is securely attached because she