Patricia, 6, loves to decorate books by drawing pictures and putting in words to describe them. her ideas are more balanced now. she has started to analyze and understand things. however, she is egocentric and holds what her parents describe as "magical beliefs". patricia is in piaget's stage of development.

The symbols found on the map below indicate where fossils have been found in the same layer of sediment. each unique symbol represents fossil locations of a particular species.

Under a tyranny the power to make a political decision is in the hands of a

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.