Children who believe they are powerless to affect their fate, and so give up, feeling that they should not try to succeed, have developed:
-externalizing tendencies.
-compensatory surrender.
-discounting.
learned helplessness.
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Suppose that you get a creepy feeling every time you ride the bus at night. Even if you have never heard about anything scary happening on the bus at night, you might end up using this feeling to form a judgment that riding the bus at night is a bad thing. Forming a judgment in such a way would be consistent with ____
a. the idea of affective forecasting b. the idea of affect balance c. the affect-as-information hypothesis d. having high emotional intelligence (EQ)
The leading cause of infant deaths in the United States is:
a. birth defects c. choking on objects b. SIDS d. car accidents
What is the difference between functional fixedness and mental set?
a. A mental set is more rigid than functional fixedness.
b. Functional fixedness emphasizes the objects involved in solving the problem, whereas mental set emphasizes the problem solver's strategies.
c. Functional fixedness applies to problem finding, whereas mental set applies to problem solving.
d. There is no substantial difference; the two terms are identical.
According to the article Coming of Age about the timing of puberty and adolescent behavior, males were _____ females:
(a) more delinquent than (b) less delinquent than (c) at about the same levels of delinquency as