Popularity in middle childhood is often linked to both academic and athletic ability, with good athletes being more popular than other children but good students being less popular than others

Eli, age 5, lives on an island where there are very few metal objects. He is handed a pair of scissors to cut a traced object on a paper by a researcher. What might the researcher find?

a. Eli will not be able to cut the shape because he does not have strong fine motor skills. b. This test does not accurately measure his fine motor skills. c. Eli will quickly cut the object out. Five-year-olds pick up new skills very quickly. d. Eli will use his whole body to try and manipulate the scissors, as he is more used to using gross motor skills.

An analysis of classical conditioning reveals that:

a. classical conditioning occurs in mammals, but not in lower species. b. The salivary response is one of the few reflexes that can be conditioned. c. completely eliminating a conditioned response usually requires more than one session. d. learning always occurs when an unconditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus.