What is emotional self-efficacy, and how does it relate to adolescence?
What will be an ideal response?
Emotional self-efficacy is the ability to accept and feel in control of one's emotions. Should individuals reach the point of emotional self-efficacy, it is generally obtained in late adolescence and represents the maturation of the emotional self into a well-adjusted individual.
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Emotional experiences, expressions, impulse control, and basic drives such as aggression, sex, hunger, and thirst are the function of the
a. endocrine system b. sympathetic system. c. limbic system. d. autonomic system.
In their critique of the use of verbal reports as a source of data about the cognitive processes involved in a variety of different tasks, Nisbett and Wilson (1977) argued that
a. People are often unable to given accurate reports of the factors which have influenced their behaviors. b. Retrospective accounts by the participants of the ways in which they performed a task may provide valuable insights into the processes involved in doing the task. c. Verbal reports are an accurate source of information about the factors involved in our behaviors, decisions, and emotions. d. People have direct, introspective access to their cognitive processes.
Because memory is reconstructive, it is subject to _____________, which is confusing an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or coming to believe that you remember something that never really happened
a. confabulation b. priming c. flashbulb memory d. repression
If you were to examine the different growth patterns of a child's body size, nervous system, and sexual characteristics, you would apply which principle?
a) Principle of the independence of systems b) Cephalocaudal principle c) Principle of hierarchical integration d) Proximodistal principle