Grant is a fun-loving, intelligent, responsible teenager who likes to dye his hair different colors. However, he is concerned that other people might construe his hair color as a reflection of poor academic achievement. His concern is an example of _____.
A. effortful control
B. postconventional thinking
C. stereotype threat
D. cognitive flexibility
C. stereotype threat
C. stereotype threat
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Social __________ is a phenomenon that occurs when people believe that their individual efforts don't matter or that they are not personally responsible because they are only one member of a larger group, so they tend to put less effort into a task
a. deindividuation b. loafing c. conformity d. likelihood
When brain researchers want to map the structures in a living human brain, they turn to ______
a. macroelectrode techniques b. microelectrode techniques c. structural imaging d. functional imaging
Inability to recognize objects, despite an intact sensory system is called ______
a. agnosia c. disturbance in executive functioning b. apraxia d. aphasia
According to evolutionary developmental psychologists, many evolved psychological mechanisms are ________. That is, the mechanisms apply only to a specific aspect of a person's psychological makeup.
A. maladjusted B. unconditional C. domain-specific D. non-operational