According to David Elkind, teenagers question society's rules and become involved in idealistic causes because they can:
a) be too naive to understand why things are the way they are.
b) reason abstractly and so realize that adult rules are often arbitrary and wrong.
c) think too concretely to understand the world.
d) rebel against the older generation, because they now physically look adult.
Answer: b) reason abstractly and so realize that adult rules are often arbitrary and wrong.
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a. Westerners and East Asians both tend to focus more on categorization than on contextual information in their visual processing. b. Westerners and East Asians both tend to focus more on contextual information than on categorization in their visual processing. c. Westerners tend to focus more on categorization in their visual processing, whereas East Asians tend to focus more on contextual information. d. East Asians tend to focus more on categorization in their visual processing, whereas Westerners tend to focus more on contextual information. e. Both East Asians and Westerners demonstrate a pattern of balancing categorization with context in their visual processing.
The sequence of components for emotion according to the Schachter-Singer cognitive theory of emotion is:
A. emotional feeling, facial muscles change, interpret cues, overt behavior, emotional feeling again B. facial muscles change, interpret cues, overt behavior, emotional feeling C. stimulus, interpretation of stimulus, emotional feeling, overt behavior D. physiological arousal, emotional feeling, interpret cues, overt behavior
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c. develop in the normal male pattern. d. develop both the normal female and male patterns.