Critical thinkers do not make assumptions about how the world works

The contextual perspective focuses on

A) qualitative stages in how thinking changes as people grow older. B) relationships between adolescents and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds. C) quantitative changes in how information is processed as people grow older. D) reinforcements that people experience in their everyday environments.

Which of the following statements is supported by research on emotional self-regulation?

A) Compared with North Americans, Japanese and Chinese adults discourage the expression of strong emotion in babies. B) Beginning in infancy, girls have a harder time regulating negative emotion than boys. C) By the second year, toddlers are quite skilled at using language to comfort themselves. D) Parents imitate their babies' displays of negative emotion more often than displays of positive emotion.