Your 14-year-old nephew just walked in the door from school and told you that he is not going to go back to school. You ask why and he tells you that everyone laughed at him because he dropped his tray full of food as he sitting down during lunch
Although you tried to help, he was inconsolable. Why? Your nephew was experiencing what David Elkind regarded as ____.
a. egocentrism
b. the imaginary audience
c. the personal fable
d. the adolescent growth spurt
B. The imaginary audience makes adolescents much more self-conscious than before they were adolescents.
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By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to
a. perceive the stimulus. b. process the stimulus. c. attend to the stimulus. d. make a decision about the stimulus.
The physical stimulus for the perception of touch is:
a. electromagnetic energy b. mechanical energy c. chemical energy d. hyperkinetic energy
About 26 percent of adolescents get less than ________ hours of sleep a night
a. 5.5 c. 7.5 b. 6.5 d. 8.5
What is operant conditioning, and what is its relationship to learning development?
What will be an ideal response?