According to Labouvie-Vief, how would an adolescent who is in the formal operations stage respond to the following scenario? "A man, after being warned by his wife that she had no tolerance for him smoking in any situation, was caught smoking
cigarettes at a party. The last time they spoke about this the wife threatened to sell his snowmobile if she ever caught him with a cigarette again. What will she do?"
"Did he apologize and beg her not to sell the snowmobile? Did she really mean it when she said she would sell it ?"
"She said she would sell his snowmobile if he ever smoked again, he did, therefore she will sell it."
"Is one cigarette worth the trouble of selling his snowmobile?? Has she considered the possible effects on the children?"
"Does she really want to sell the snowmobile? Does she enjoy using it?It was most likely just a threat."
"She said she would sell his snowmobile if he ever smoked again, he did, therefore she will sell it."
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a. Intelligence is partly inherited. b. Intelligence is correlated with brain volume. c. Specific genes account for most intelligent behavior. d. Heritability ratios can fluctuate over the life span.
John conducted an experiment to test the effectiveness of a smoking cessation program. The experiment took place over a 1-month time period. Participants in the control group and the experimental group (those who participated in the smoking cessation program) recorded the number of cigarettes that they smoked each day. John was unaware that "national stop-smoking week" also happened to take place
during the 1-month time period of his experiment. John's experiment is now confounded by a. maturation. b. history. c. regression to the mean. d. mortality.
Erik Erikson, in his theory of the lifespan, proposed that late adulthood is when the central challenge is _____
a. trust vs. mistrust b. industry vs. inferiority c. identity achievement vs. confusion d. ego integrity vs. despair
A good behavioral definition should be
A) ?objective and ambiguous. B) ?subjective and abstract. C) ?objective and unambiguous. D) ?unambiguous and abstract.