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Carter is in an electronics store with his parents. He looks at the MP3 players and thinks for a moment that he could grab one and put it beneath his coat. As he considers this possibility, he decides not to do it because he might get caught and his parents would punish him. What stage of moral development does Carter’s decision represent?

A patient’s chart indicates that she just had surgery to remove her hippocampi as a result of a tumor. What change do you anticipate in the patient after the operation?

Kosslyn asked subjects if frogs have lips and a stubby tail. What did the subjects report?

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

Which intelligence theorist suggested that intelligence is made up of a g factor (general intelligence), and also acknowledged the existence of task-specific abilities, labeled s factor (specific intelligence)?

Tamika and Tyrone are twins who developed from two separate fertilized ova that were fertilized by two different sperm. What type of twins are they?

In normal developmental cases, humans have a total of __________ chromosomes.

Assimilation is to accommodation as __________.

You need to remove a broken light bulb from a lamp. Without a pair of gloves, you are likely to cut yourself on the jagged glass. Suddenly, it occurs to you that you can use a cut potato to remove the light bulb from the socket. You have just demonstrated __________.

Little Jonas is learning to speak, and it is clear to his parents that he understands far more words than he can say. Psychologists refer to this as a receptive-__________ lag.