After spending the weekend at home, you find driving back to school very stressful. The roads are very icy and there is snow blowing, reducing your visibility. Foremost in your mind is the certainty of sliding into the ditch. You're probably making a ____ appraisal.
A. positive
B. harm/loss
C. threat
D. challenge
Answer: C
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A. Sigmund Freud-the social cognitive theorist B. Abraham Maslow-the strict behaviorist C. B.F. Skinner-the strict behaviorist D. Albert Bandura-the social cognitive theorist
The age of viability refers to the point when the preterm newborn:
can survive outside the uterus. begins to move. will be born with any defects. has developed all its major organs.
Which of the following is true about incremental theories?
A) Children who hold incremental views tend to give up when confronted with difficult problems in school. B) Children who hold incremental theories view their intelligence as something that cannot be changed. C) Children who hold incremental theories tend to do poorly academically compared to those who hold entity theories. D) Children can be taught incremental views.
One reflection of the development of infants' short-term memory is their improvement _______________
a. at the task of object permanence b. in their fine motor skills c. in their gross motor skills d. in their language skills