A researcher maintains that a person's self esteem level is largely inherited from his or her parents. From this she derives the prediction that children with low self esteem probably come from homes where one or both parents have low self esteem. In this case, the prediction is the

Your bill at the grocery is $9.30. You give the cashier $10.30 expecting to get a dollar bill in change. Instead, the cashier seems puzzled, counts out 70 cents in change, and leaves your 30 cents lying on the counter. The cashier's behavior illustrate

a. attribution analysis c. functional fixedness b. mental set d. compensatory decision-making

The main distinction of the information-processing approach compared to Piaget's cognitive constructivist theory is that information processing approach views cognitive change as _____, whereas Piaget viewed it as _____

a. discontinuous; continuous b. continuous; discontinuous c. stage-like; discontinuous d. continually changing; continuous