According to Piaget, the moral reasoning of 10- to 12-year-olds ...

[Mollykgkg]

According to Piaget, the moral reasoning of 10- to 12-year-olds is characterized by
 
  a. the belief that accidents such as falling down or losing something are punishments for misdeeds.
  b. a focus on the magnitude of the misdeed rather than on the wrongdoer's intentions.
  c. the belief that rules are absolutes in games and in life.
  d. a focus on the wrongdoer's intentions rather than on the magnitude of the misdeed.

Question 2

It was once believed that maturation is the sole determinant of motor development and that experience/practice are unimportant. More recent evidence, however, supports the position that maturation is not sufficient for motor development; practice and motivation are also important. What kinds of evidence support this view?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[jasonq]

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

Evidence for a role of experience is found (a) in Dennis's finding that the motor skills of institutionalized orphans who had few opportunities for practice were severely retarded; (b) in Thelen's and Zelaso'ss findings that vertical posturing facilitates walking; and (c) in Goldfield's finding that crawling emerges only after several individual skills become organized in the service or reaching of a particular goal.

[Mollykgkg]

TYSM

[coreycathey]

Excellent