The contextual perspective focuses on
A) qualitative stages in how thinking changes as people grow older.
B) relationships between adolescents and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social
worlds.
C) quantitative changes in how information is processed as people grow older.
D) reinforcements that people experience in their everyday environments.
B
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Luckily, Cy can spot the fly in his soup and distinguish it from the flecks of pepper also floating in the broth. From Cy's perspective, what is the figure and what is the (back)ground?
A) The pepper is the ground, and the broth is the figure. B) The fly is the figure, and the broth is the ground. C) The broth is the figure, and the pepper is the ground. D) The pepper is the figure, and the fly is the ground.
Regarding the studies of conformity, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The size of the majority makes a difference in whether the person conformed, but a surprisingly small difference. b. A lack of unanimity, that is, having at least one person in your corner, can greatly reduce pressures to conform. c. The more important group membership is to a person, the more he or she will be influenced by other group members. d. Since the groups in Asch experiments were temporary, sanctions were informal, and rejection had no lasting importance, less than half of the participants conformed to the group opinion regarding the lines.
Overestimating one's chances of being involved in a violent incident is known as the __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word