"My First Memory? I Can Remember When I Was Almost

question 153

Multiple Choice

"My first memory? I can remember when I was almost three years old and going to my mom's hospital room just after my little brother was born. My aunt handed me my little brother all wrapped in a blanket and I remember just looking at him for the longest time, and thinking how he was so little." According to the research discussed in the Culture and Human Behavior box, memories like this one that focus on a specific event and the person's feelings about the event were most likely to be:

• A)a false memory.
• B)reported by European American college students.
• C)the result of imagination inflation.
• D)reported by Chinese and Taiwanese college students.

Understand Erikson's stages of psychosocial development and the crises involved at each stage.

Comprehend Piaget's stages of cognitive development and the cognitive abilities characteristic of each stage.

Distinguish between assimilation, accommodation, and adaptation within Piaget's theory.

Recognize the importance of initiative, guilt, industry, and inferiority, and how they relate to child development according to Erikson.

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Definitions:

Free Markets

Economic systems in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, without government intervention.

Moral-Hazard Problem

A situation in which one party engages in risky behavior knowing that it is protected against the risk because another party will incur any resulting costs.

Monitoring

The process of systematically observing, checking, and recording activities or data to ensure proper compliance or performance.

Moral Hazard Problem

The risk that one party to a transaction takes on more risk because it knows that the other party bears the consequences of those risks.