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We watched a video clip of the study that tested 3-year old children’s ability to sort cards either by color (blue or red) or shape (boat or rabbit). What was unusual about how the children sorted the cards?

At what age do children typically develop an ability to lie, acquiring an understanding that people can hold inaccurate beliefs?

Which portion of the Strange Situation most reliably indicates the quality of the attachment bond?

Ella is 5 years old. She is asked to either distribute Oreos so that she and another child will each get 5 cookies, or so that she gets 3 cookies and the other child gets none. Which is she likely to do?

When it comes to spontaneous prosocial behavior, what has been demonstrated to be the difference between an 18-month-old child and a chimp?

Which of the following is NOT a recommended method for teaching phonics?

Stephen Ceci of Cornell asked children repeatedly over a span of several weeks if they’d ever caught their hand in a mousetrap. The children were likely to:

Which of the following brain structures is critical for adapting motor behaviors to new visual inputs?

Based on what we learned from lecture, what did researchers find when babies listened to an artificial language (e.g., golabubidakutupiropadoti)?

To demonstrate motor adaptation, Dr. Church-Lang presented a clip of her daughter throwing a ball at a target as she alternated between wearing and not wearing prism glasses. Which of the following drives the child hitting the target by the end of the demonstration?