High school students are capable of solving problems through a series of thought processes as a result of:
a. lists of the material they know well
b. the influence of family and friends.
c. information-processing skills development.
d. the enormous amount of career information available.
c
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a. The bathroom scale has more standard error and less reliability than the scale at the health club b. The health club scale has a large systematic error of measurement and a normal level of test-retest reliability c. Data collected with the bathroom scale will have a larger Cronbach “?” than will data collected using the health club scale d. A K-R 20 analysis of the data taken from both scales will show that the internal consistency of the bathroom scale’s findings have a greater K-R 20 value than is true of data from the health club scale
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a. hippocampus b. reticular activating system (RAS) c. cortex d. occipital
Amanda is aware that she has been influenced by her older sister's goal to become an obstetrician, rather than focusing on her own interests. Amanda is using which of these cognitive information processing executive domains?
a. cognitive schemas b. monitoring c. self-awareness d. self-talk