Four-year-old Alex and his mother visited the zoo. While they were there, Alex's mother took him to see the squirrel exhibit. Alex saw many different types of squirrels, but when he saw a flying squirrel glide from one branch to the next, he pointed and said, "A bird." Considering Piaget's work, Alex is demonstrating an example of

The text concludes that

(a) the death penalty has reduced the murder rate (b) the increasing crime rate has led to an increase in the severity of penalties (c) for an extended period, both the crime rate and the percentage of people in prison increased, but we do not understand what the causal relationships are (d) increasing the severity of punishment reliably produces corresponding decreases in the crime rate, but there are ethical reasons preventing us from increasing the severity of punishment still further

Because the physiological arousal response takes a few seconds to begin, over the

course of time, evolution has led humans to develop a(n) __________ response that is quicker than the physiological response. (a) hormonal (b) situational (c) emotional (d) cognitive