As Josiah approaches his 30th birthday, he imagines the kind of advice he might give the teenage version of himself
He concludes, though, that through making mistakes he has learned many valuable lessons, and that those experiences have helped him to develop a sense of wisdom. Which aspect of post-formal reasoning has Josiah begun to develop?
A) understanding that you have to be practical within a given situation
B) judgments and decisions based on increasing wisdom
C) relativistic reasoning
D) acceptance of contradictions in the world
B) judgments and decisions based on increasing wisdom The concept of increasing wisdom with age is an aspect of the post-formal stage of development.
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The serial position effect tends to occur when one is measuring memory by
a. recalling a list of items. b. recognizing an item among several items that are very similar. c. recognizing an item among several items that are very different. d. relearning items.
Social Psychology in Action Video 10: Bystander EffectClick on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 322 and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test and answer the following question:The video illustrates the bystander effect using a business woman versus a homeless woman. Design you own study, and indicate what factor(s) you would manipulate to investigate the impact upon the helping behavior of the observers. Based on what you learned in the video, what would you predict will happen, and why?
What will be an ideal response?
____ are larger, reputation-based groups of adolescents who are not necessarily friends and do not necessarily spend much time together; in contrast, ____ are small groups of friends who know each other well, do things together, and form a regular
social group. crowds; cliques cliques; crowds groups; pods pods; groups
In humans, the machinery for perceiving the world
a. must await the second year of physical maturation. b. is pretty much ready at birth. c. develops during the second half of the child's first year. d. is pretty much dependent on learning experiences.