Your boss just praised you effusively for a superior job on a marketing report; he also said he liked the presentation you gave at the regional meeting. As you walk out the door, he says you might want to try wearing another tie. You spend hours mulling
over that last comment and find yourself becoming depressed. Your reaction to the comment was, "I am washed up as an employee; they want someone to replace me." Your conclusion is an example of
a. attribution.
b. an inexact label.
c. cognitive dissonance.
d. selective abstraction.
Answer: d.
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Which of the following represents your authors' position regarding the use of physical discipline with children?
a. Physical punishment is something that could disappear "overnight," if only people would learn better parenting strategies. b. Physical punishment is only problematic when it occurs in poverty-stricken families because there is already more stress than a child can endure in such circumstances. c. As long as physical punishment of children is considered to be acceptable and effective, children will continue to be abused. d. Parents need to learn that physical discipline can be part of an effective parenting strategy as long as it is not overused.
Which of the following milestones typically occurs at the end of the middle childhood stage?
A. The start of school B. A strong growth spurt C. The search for identity D. The ability to jump rope
What are the rules that govern how words are strung together into meaningful sentences?
a Semantics b. Pragmatics c. Morphemics d. Syntax
When an adolescent provides another adolescent with opportunities to compare and evaluate opinions, abilities, and physical changes, this is called
a) social reference.
b) social comparison.
c) peer review.
d) reference groups.