In Ms. Ceyner's class, she encourages students to focus on mastering a task for its own sake and she praises individual performance improvement rather than comparisons to other classmates. By doing this, Ms. Ceyner is
A) reducing failures by pointing out where corrective action is needed.
B) showering her students with compliments in order to make them feel better about themselves.
C) emphasizing ability over effort.
D) fostering a mastery-oriented approach.
D
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a. the primacy effect b. the spacing effect c. the recency effect d. the massed practice effect
Roser and colleagues (2015) conducted a study in which they studied the formation of implicit spatial relationships in both teenagers and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and age-matched controls. Which statement about their findings is TRUE?
A) Persons with ASD demonstrated deficits on this task. B) Persons with ASD demonstrated enhanced implicit learning and, surprisingly, were explicitly aware of these learned spatial relationships. C) Adults with ASD demonstrated enhanced implicit but not explicit learning. D) Teenagers with ASD demonstrated enhanced implicit but not explicit learning.
People with narcissistic personality disorder display all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
A. exploitation of others. B. happiness because they receive the adulation of others. C. demands for special attention. D. feelings of grandiosity.
Lesbian couples often report lower levels of sexual satisfaction than heterosexual women
Indicate whether the statement is true or false