Mike desperately wants to do well on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), as his scores will affect his chances of getting into his first-choice college. He also knows that many students at his school think that SAT scores are good indicators of how "smart" a person is. Yet the night before the test, rather than get a good night's sleep, Mike goes out with his friends, has a few beers, comes
home late, and wakes up with a hangover. With this information in mind, we might suspect that Michael:
a. Is engaging in self-socialization
b. Is engaging in self-handicapping
c. Has fallen victim to the imaginary-audience phenomenon
d. Has poorly developed social information processing skills
B
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a. 10 b. 15 c. 20 d. 30
Use one of the methods shown in your textbook to test for straightness, and then indicate whether this figure has straight sides
What will be an ideal response?
A student says to you, “My momma she be singin’ all da time.” It is most likely that this student:
a. is from a home where English is not the primary language.
b. is using a dialect with some grammatical constructions different from those of Standard English.
c. has a different conception of time than is typical of most children in American schools.
d. has a speech disorder that will qualify the student for special services.
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