Marion is a sprinter on her high school track team. According to social comparison theory, Marion is most likely to look to which of the following groups to assess how fast a sprinter she is?
a. other female high school track athletes
b. other female students at her school who are not on the track team
c. male members of her track team
d. U.S. Olympic track team members
a
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Loretta is 12 years old. She is studying for a geography test. She first reviews her
materials. She then remembers that her teacher said to focus on knowing the maps. Loretta then organizes her studying around that directive. This is an example of which one of the following cognitive processes? a. Metacognition b. Spatial perception c. Reversibility d. Strategic planning
Researchers have described four categories of social status. Which children were the ones who most often were rated as "liked" and rarely rated as "disliked"?
A. popular B. rejected C. neglected D. controversial
Which of Sternberg's forms of intelligence is measured by IQ tests?
A. analytical B. creative C. practical D. intrapersonal
Which of the following statements is true of forgetting?
A. The first attempts to study forgetting were made by Georg Elias Muller. B. Forgetting helps keep unwanted and unnecessary information from interfering with retrieving necessary information. C. Research on forgetting shows that the initial decline in memory is gradual, followed by a rapid decline over a short time period. D. Forgetting prevents us from forming general impressions and recollections.