If a 4½-year-old child is asked to draw a person who is first standing upright and then has fallen down, the child is likely to draw the figure in the vertical position,
and then the figure lying in the horizontal position with no other pictures in between to demonstrate the person falling. This child would be demonstrating a lack of __________.
a) egocentric thought
b) intuitive thought
c) conservation
d) transformation
Answer: d
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The most convincing evidence that depth perception is native to humans (and possibly other species) is its
a. importance in adaptive activity. b. early emergence as a perceptual skill. c. integration with motor skills. d. reliance on monocular and binocular cues.
Sometimes being around others can:
a. lead you to eat more than you normally would. b. lead you to eat less than you normally would. c. either a or b, depending on what others were doing. d. neither a nor b; others do not influence our eating.