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Robert's mother pours a cup of milk for him and then realizes that the cup has a small crack in the rim. Not wanting her son to cut his lip, she pours the milk into another cup. The second cup happens to be shorter and wider than the first cup. Robert is not upset because he knows that the amount of milk has remained the same. Robert is at LEAST _____ years old.

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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The overlapping-waves theory is a perspective on the development of:

A) content knowledge.
B) problem solving.
C) planning.
D) memory strategies.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Children's general knowledge about vehicles is an example of information stored in _____ memory.

Dr. Brown conducts a study in which participants are presented with the pendulum problem described in the text and are asked to determine which factor or factors influence the amount of time it takes the pendulum to swing through a complete arc: the length of the string, the heaviness of the weight, the height from which the weight is dropped, or some combination of these factors. Which comparison is MOST likely to be made by an individual in Piaget's formal operational stage?

Which aspect(s) of working memory changes with age from childhood to adolescence?

Which theory focuses on the theme of the active child?

Which statement about content knowledge is NOT true?

Which statement about intersubjectivity is true?

According to Piaget, which behaviour develops first?

According to dynamic-systems theories, development is:

Myelin acts as a(n) :

Egocentrism is characteristic of Piaget's _____ stage.

Which statement about information is true?

Six-month-old Liliana has been exclusively breast-fed since birth and thus has never had milk from a bottle. The first time Liliana is offered a bottle, she tries to suck on it the way she is used to sucking. However, her sucking behaviour is not successful with the bottle. She thus has to adapt her sucking in order to get sufficient milk from the bottle. Liliana's new understanding of how to suck on the bottle is an indication that she has engaged in the process of:

In which of these situations would Michael Tomasello be most interested?

The simplest and most frequently used mental activities are referred to as:

Working memory is limited in:

Arden is sitting in a tree and has a perfect view of his twin brother, George, digging a hole and burying a treasure. A few weeks later, the boys want to dig up the buried treasure, but leaves are covering the area, making it impossible to see the loosened dirt where George dug the hole. According to the dynamic-systems perspective, which brother is more likely to remember where the treasure is?

Kevin and his mother are playing with a squeaky toy. Kevin's mother squeezes the toy in front of him and then hides it under a blanket. Kevin has fun finding the toy under the blanket and then giving it back to his mother. After several rounds of this game, Kevin's mother hides the toy behind a pillow instead of under the blanket. Rather than looking behind the pillow, however, Kevin lifts the blanket to look for the toy. What age is Kevin MOST likely to be?

In their perspective on the extent to which the child is an active participant in his or her own development, dynamic-systems theories are most similar to: