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justinmsk

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Which one of the following examples best illustrates the use of a personally constructed theory as a child learns the concept spider?
 
  a. Julian assumes that spiders give birth to live baby spiders, just as people give birth to live infants.
  b. Ian learns that spiders have eight legs, whereas insects have only six.
  c. Rudy learns that spiders, along with scorpions and ticks, are members of the arachnid class.
  d. Duc remembers what happened when his cousin was bitten by a black widow spider.

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. Which one of the following statements best describes psychologists' proposal that children's knowledge sometimes takes the form of theories?
 
  a. The ways in which children categorize their experiences usually have little relevance to physical reality.
  b. Children develop a general set of beliefs about how the world operates.
  c. In the early years, children develop concrete understandings of events; these understandings become increasingly abstract as they reach adolescence.
  d. Children form hypotheses about what things are and are not examples of a concept.


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