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Which of the following is a self-conscious emotion?

Fourteen-year-old Myles is certain he will be a professional baseball player. When his mother makes him stay home from practice because he has strep throat, Myles says, “You are ruining my life! You have no idea how hard it is to miss out on something you love to do!” Myles is experiencing a cognitive distortion known as __________.

Kia, age 14, uses hypothetico-deductive reasoning. Therefore, when faced with a problem, Kia probably __________.

In Paul’s preschool classroom, children are encouraged to choose activities from a rich variety of materials designed to promote exploration. This preschool emphasizes the Piagetian principle of __________.

Calculate the pH of a solution that is 0.322 M in nitrous acid (HNO2) and 0.178 M in potassium nitrite (KNO2). The acid dissociation constant of nitrous acid is 4.50 × 10-4.

The more alcohol a woman consumes during pregnancy, the __________.

Two-year-old Laura dropped a block into her toy box. She then dropped a cup, a car, and a doll—some gently, and some with force. Laura’s modification of her dropping scheme is an example of __________.

Dr. Hahn believes that language is etched into the structure of the brain. Dr. Hahn endorses the __________ perspective of language development.

Jamie’s twenty-third pair of chromosomes is XY. Jamie is __________.

Parents who discuss their childhoods with objectivity and balance, regardless of whether their experiences were positive or negative, tend to have __________ infants.