Describe the historical progression of tertiary education
What will be an ideal response?
One hundred years ago, few people (less than 10%) attended college or trade school. The majority of these people were males. Now, it is a normative experience and more females are likely to attend and obtain a degree.
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When Darren's classmate earns a D on an essay for their history class, Darren figures the classmate is unmotivated and should have spent more time working on the paper and less time socializing. The classmate is disappointed with her grade, but she knows she didn't have much time to work on the essay because she had to work double shifts the entire week before the paper was due. The different
attributions for the low grade on the essay illustrate a. the actor-observer bias. b. defensive attributions. c. the self-serving bias. d. cognitive dissonance.
The Blanchard-Fields (1986) classic study of dilemma-solving in high school students, college students, and middle-aged adults found that
a. adult participants were most effective at integrating emotion into their thinking. b. high school participants were most effective at solving everyday dilemmas. c. college students thought at the most advanced levels on every type of dilemma. d. the ability to solve dilemmas did not differ by age.
Which characteristic is a symptom of illness?
A) high fever B) bad headaches C) high blood pressure D) elevated white blood cell count
The fact that people sometimes kill others, pollute the environment, and abuse their own bodies is most difficult for which theory of personality to explain?
a. ?psychoanalytic theory? b. ?humanistic theory c. ?social cognitive theory d. ?trait theory