How is the ability to think about an ideal self and a feared self tied to formal operational thinking abilities?
What will be an ideal response?
Both of these require the adolescent to think about possibilities rather than the concrete "here and now." This hypothetical thinking requires an ability to use abstract thinking, a hallmark of the formal operational stage.
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An individual’s ability to maintain balance is primarily aided by which of the following?
a. Auditory nerve endings b. Merkel’s disks c. Ruffini corpuscle d. Vestibular system
According to a basic principle of the cognitive perspective, which person are you most likely to notice at a party?
a. the host, because he is the person you know the best b. the shy person, because she is the most similar to you c. the person wearing a lampshade on his head and dancing on the coffee table, because he is unique and noisy d. your best friend, because she is familiar and predictable
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease, and is characterized by airway irritability and obstruction due, in part, to allergies and irritants
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Computer databases such as PsycINFO are searched using
a. primary terms. b. secondary terms. c. keywords. d. journal abstracts.