“You know who I ran into the other day? Michael from Mrs. Davidson’s class. He’s running his own small business now,” says Linnea. “He’ll always be ‘the kid who eats glue’ to me,” answers Isabelle. Identify and explain the destructive process of verbal symbol use that Isabelle is using.
What will be an ideal response?
Isabelle is engaging in static evaluation. She is speaking of someone she knew as though nothing has changed. This reduces Michael, a small business owner, to his childhood self.
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A) race B) genotype C) phenotype D) sociobiology
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