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Nina is a woman who is a leader in her community, church and at work. She takes the time to mentor other women and girls. She is a very productive and active person who is committed to her parents and her children. A year ago, her father died of a heart attack. Nina comes to you with unresolved grief over the death of her father and her own feelings of mortality. From Erickson’s model you would estimate Nina is which of the following ages?

The group’s __________ leader serves to reduce conflict.

Pansy is able to use deductive reasoning. She can appropriately define constructs like freedom and justice. She can devise a plan based on several possible solutions. She understands the difference between fantasy and reality. She sometimes irritates her parents and teachers by taking opinions or attitude that are contrary to these authority figures. Her understanding of mathematical and scientific principles has increased. You would expect she is in which of Piaget’s stages?  

The term “capital punishment” refers to __________.

Dewayne, 19 months, is a very bright child who is responsive to his parents and to his grandmother who lives with his family. The child walked early and has an impressive receptive vocabulary. His older brothers, 8 and 10 are charmed with their little brother and play with him regularly. Wayne has developed a sense of object permanence, he realizes when his toy trucks are hidden under a blanket that they are not “gone.”  The child has a sense that objects take up space and that one thing follows another. He also is aware of the concept of causality, actions have specific consequences. For instance, when he pulls his dog, Milly’s ears, she runs away. Wayne no longer pulls the dogs ears. Piaget indicates that this child is in which stage of Sensory Motor Development?

The system of separating racial-ethnic groups that was practiced in South Africa was called __________.

In the image, what does the stratigraphic section depict?

According to Hirschi, if our bonds with society are __________, our inner controls will be __________.

The mantle is dominantly composed of:

The system of separating racial-ethnic groups that was practiced in South Africa was called __________.