According to Walter Mischel, if a child experiences a particular situation, he or she will then respond with a unique, stable set of behaviors. These if-then patterns will be characteristic of an individual, leading to the stable characteristics we think of as ____
a. ?traits
b. ?temperament
c. ?personality
d. ?self-concept
ANSWER:
c
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a. chance mutations in their genetic make-up. b. intense practice. c. damage to the right hemisphere of the brain. d. a familial intellectual disability.
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A. To describe behavior B. To predict behavior C. To explain behavior D. To organize behavior
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A. Concrete thinking B. Operational schemes C. Hypothetic-deductive reasoning D. Representational thinking
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A. Erik Erikson assumed that women were more likely than men to reject the minority culture for the dominant culture. B. Erik Erikson assumed that a woman's relationships with her peers did not play a role in her identity development. C. Erik Erikson assumed that relationships were more important to women's development of identity than occupational matters. D. Erik Erikson assumed that men, unlike women, were less concerned with ideological matters during adolescence.