Many studies, conducted over more than 20 years, have found ______ between self-efficacy and performance in workplaces, schools, and clinical settings

The psychometric approach to cognition focuses on

A) universal patterns of development. B) people with very unusual ways of thinking. C) how individuals differ from one another in thinking ability. D) the rate at which children pass through cognitive stages.

You place five pennies in a row and then take five more pennies and place them in a row directly below the other,

so that the pennies in the two rows are paired. Your five-year-old son tells you that there are the same number of pennies in each row. You then spread out the pennies on the bottom row so that it looks longer. Your son now thinks that the bottom row has more pennies, showing that he lacks a. conservation. b. object permanence. c. assimilation. d. egocentrism.