William Perry has done research that shows a transition in the way college students think
They go from a staunch need to have a "right" or "wrong" answer to a more flexible and tolerant way of viewing problems as ambiguous and having multiple levels of "rightness." Perry's findings have generally persisted in the decades since they were first published. This demonstrates the principle of
A) replicability.
B) ruling out rival hypotheses.
C) correlation vs. causation.
D) extraordinary claims.
Answer: A
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A) American teens are more sexually active than European teens. B) American teens are less likely than European teens to use contraceptives. C) Abstinence-only sex education is more common in the U.S. than in European nations. D) American society is more tolerant than European nations of adolescent childbearing.
During Bowlby's "attachment-in-the-making" phase,
A) built-in signals help bring newborns into close contact with other humans. B) infants respond differently to a familiar caregiver than to a stranger. C) separation anxiety is evident. D) separation protests decline.