List at least three behavioral, cognitive, or psychosocial factors involved in making good decisions.
What will be an ideal response?
People who have a wider breadth of experiences can often make better decisions that those who have limited experience. Adolescents and adults who are impulsive and seek sensation are often not very effective decision makers. Conversely, people generally make better decisions when they are calm, rather than emotionally aroused. The social context plays a key role in adolescent decision-making. The presence of peers in risk-taking situations increases the likelihood that an adolescent will make risky decisions.
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A. more walkways and bicycle paths B. lowing housing density C. zoning that encourages fast-food chains D. lower population density
Pointing out consequences of a child's behavior and appealing to the child's self-esteem are part of which type of discipline?
A. passive B. authoritarian C. inductive D. harsh
Following pretesting, Binet and Simon retained for inclusion in their intelligence test the items that
a. were more familiar to boys than to girls. b. discriminated smart children from dull children. c. gave an advantage to Caucasians relative to minorities. d. were so difficult that only 10 percent of children got them right.
_____ is the process of making inferences about the causes of human behavior
a) Social cognition b) The human causality hypothesis c) Attribution d) The primacy effect