Young people who identify with labels such as hood, loser, or druggie are likely to develop a

A. foreclosed identity.
B. moratorium.
C. social conscience. 
D. negative identity.


Answer: D

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a. In general, no gender differences appear in this area. b. When working with no one else in the room, women are more self-confident than men. c. No major gender differences in self-confidence appear when the task is described as being one that "women are good at.". d. Men are much more self-confident than women on traditionally masculine tasks; women are somewhat more self-confident than men on traditionally feminine tasks.

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Stephen LaBerge and his colleagues at the Stanford University Sleep Research Center were able to show that lucid dreams are real and that lucid dreamers are able to

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Studies of inattentional blindness indicate that

a. we sometimes fail to notice surprising visual events. b. we usually pay special attention to surprising visual events. c. changes in a visual stimulus will tend to be processed, but often inefficiently. d. the brain is temporarily attentive to novel visual stimuli. e. we are unable to attend to two superimposed visual stimuli.

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According to Vygotsky, knowledge that is just beyond a child's ability is said to be in the __________

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