Dr Messerman Is Researching Cognitive Development in Children

question 65

Multiple Choice

Dr. Messerman is researching cognitive development in children. During one of the research sessions, one child decides he does not want to participate anymore. Dr. Messerman

• A) must stop testing on that child.
• B) should wait a few days and test the child again.
• C) can ask the parents to talk to the child.
• D) can force the child to participate with the parents' consent.
• E) must terminate the research.

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Definitions:

Vividness Effect

Occurs during decision-making when some salient or vivid facts attract our attention regardless of their actual value as evidence.

Probabilistic Thinking

The ability to understand and reason with probabilities, recognizing that most predictions about the future involve some level of uncertainty.

Placebo Effect

Occurs when individuals receiving a placebo (a “dummy” version of a treatment) experience improvement in their symptoms and attribute the improvement to the placebo.

Relativistic Thought

The essence of postformal thought in which several truth systems exist describing the reality of the same event, and they appear to be logically equivalent.