According to Piaget, the Accomplishment That Characterizes the First Few

question 152

Multiple Choice

According to Piaget, the accomplishment that characterizes the first few months of life is infants' ability to

• A)search for hidden objects.
• B)react to the world with reflexes.
• C)repeat others' actions long after they have occurred.
• D)integrate reflexes into more complex behaviours.

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Definitions:

Repression Theory

A psychological concept suggesting that individuals unconsciously push disturbing thoughts, desires, and memories out of conscious awareness.

Interference Theory

A theory suggesting that the ability to remember information is affected by competing information, either before or after the learning process.

Proactive Interference

The difficulty in learning new information because of the interference from existing, previously learned information.

Retroactive Interference

A phenomenon where newly acquired information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.