Your boss has just praised you for a great job on a marketing report; he also told you he liked the presentation you gave at the regional meeting. As you walk out the door, he says you might want to try 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.
D
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A) sensorimotor B) preoperational C) concrete operational D) formal operational
When Yolanda thinks about the future, she plans to get her first job at age 22, be married by age 24, and have her first child at age 27, just like her older brother did. According to research by Bernice Neugarten, Yolanda has a well-defined
A) split dream. B) social clock. C) "feminine" dream. D) life structure.