LaShawna meets another girl at a party who is not from LaShawna's ethnic group, and whom LaShawna judges, based on her stereotype of that group, is probably shallow and a gossip. The best description of LaShawna's judgment is that she is engaged in ______

A) a social cognitive process
B) cultural norming
C) prejudice
D) developmental processes
E) a typical interaction between young females


Answer: A

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a. humanist
b. social-cognitive learning
c. narrative
d. psychoanalytic

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