Simon is approaching the end of his life. He is spending a lot of time thinking about choices he made over his life and sharing stories of his life with his grandchildren. He is likely engaging in

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.

In Piaget's six substages of sensorimotor thought, the transition to symbolic thought occurs when the child is _____ months of age

A) 1-4 B) 10-12 C) 12-18 D) 18-24