According to your text, the developing person
a. cannot modify their psychological system.
b. can modify the psychological system through self-guided choice. c. can modify one system without affecting other systems.
d. has no control over their development.
b
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Your friend is a science teacher and he hears that you have taken a class in developmental psychology. He asks your advice on improving his students' use of strategies for solving science problems. Which of the following suggestions is supported by research, as discussed in class?
a. discourage variable strategies, because they interfere with learning b. have children highlight and repeatedly read a science text describing different problem solving techniques c. ask children to explain both their correct and their incorrect answers d. provide challenge problems that children cannot solve without generating previously undiscovered strategies
A child thinks of a restaurant as a place where you go when you are hungry, where you order your food at a counter, Mommy pays for it before you get it, and where you play in the playground after eating. This child's mental representation of a restaurant,
which is likely to change as she gets older, is an example of a(n) a. schema. b. engram. c. prototype. d. memory hierarchy.