Why do laboratory studies fall short when attempting to understand how young people compare with adults when they make important choices or choices in stressful situations in which they must rely on experience, knowledge, and intuition?
What will be an ideal response?
Young people can perform well in these laboratory studies, but the studies cannot reproduce the many real-life factors that influence a teen's actual decision-making, including peer influence, influence of strong emotions, and poor self-control. Simply thinking about peer evaluation influences decision-making.
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Piaget refers to the process of combining existing schemas into new and more complex ones as
a. centration. b. transitivity. c. guided participation. d. organization.
It is typical for multiple personalities to contrast sharply with each other
a. True b. False
Degree to which a measurement device accurately measures the theoretical construct it is designed to measure
What will be an ideal response?
Stereotypes are harmful to the extent they
a. exist. b. are overgeneralized to members of a group. c. are based on experience. d. reduce cognitive effort.