Emma is having a tea party with her stuffed animals and dolls, and pretends that they love the tea and cookies she prepared. Emma's belief that her stuffed animals and dolls are alive and hold human qualities is an example of ____
a. conservation
b. egocentrism
c. classification
d. animism
D. Animism is the tendency to attribute human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects and forces.
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According to Main and Hesse (1998), why do parents that are classified as
Unresolved/Disorganized on the Adult Attachment Interview have infants that are rated as disorganized in the Strange Situation? A) The parents often engage in bizarre, frightening/frightened behavior, which creates a state of alarm in their infants. B) The fact that the parents often score low on parent sensitivity assessments. C) Because they are less intelligent than secure people. D) Because they often ignore their infants and do not take care of them.
While watching the behavior of your dog at feeding time, you get some ideas about what may be causing the behavior. This is an example of getting research ideas from ____
a. theory b. casual observation c. systematic observation d. second hand information