What is it called when a person integrates a new experience into a preexisting schema?

What will be an ideal response?


assimilation

Psychology

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Causal explanations for behavior are known as __________.

A. impressions B. perceptions C. attributions D. excuses

Psychology

A meta stereotype refers to a

a. person's thoughts about the stereotypes out group members might hold about their own group. b. person's thoughts about the acceptability of a stereotype that applies to a large number of out groups. c. stereotype that is positive in nature. d. stereotype that is widely held.

Psychology

Read the passage and complete the missing words using options that follow: The move toward empowerment is especially directed at those people who do not (7) ______ mainstream values and practices rather than attempting to (8) ______ broader changes in social structures. The physician and other health professionals can now continue to (9) ______ the most deprived and marginalized not now for their non-compliance but rather for their refusal to (10) ______ responsibility for self-management. Which of these is the best fit?

A. disparage B. conform to C. promote D. accept

Psychology

Critics point out that ape language must be taught laboriously, whereas children build vocabularies spontaneously. This may support an argument that apes have ____

a. ?real language abilities that approximate those of a human being b. ?acquired some language due to operant conditioning c. ?acquired some language due to classical conditioning d. ?no complexity to their behavior

Psychology