When Piaget and Inhelder asked children of different ages to balance a scale using several different weights, they found that

very young children tended to use logical deduction.
7-year-old children tended to use spatial relationships.
by age 10, children tended to use trial-and-error strategies.
adolescents failed to see the complexities of the problem.

by age 10, children tended to use trial-and-error strategies.

Psychology

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In the hindsight bias,

a. people rely too much on an anchor, and they fail to make appropriate adjustments. b. the availability heuristic is more useful than the representativeness heuristic. c. people believe that their foresight is more accurate than their hindsight. d. people overestimate their accuracy for predicting past events.

Psychology

The theory that suggests a combination of genetic and prenatal/perinatal factors lays the foundation for the development of schizophrenia is called the

A) neurodevelopmental model. B) gene-environment correlation. C) serotonin-developmental model. D) dopamine-developmental model.

Psychology