Sam, age 12, believes he is a pretty good soccer player but not as good of a singer. This assessment is an indication of Sam's __________.

Despite official government warnings of a severe water shortage, most citizens fail to conserve in the belief that their personal water consumption will have little effect on the community's total water supply. The eventual depletion of the community's water resources provides an example of:

A. the Tragedy of the Commons. B. individualistic calamity. C. rational disaster. D. mirror-image perceptions.

Adolescents whose parents and friends have high expectations for educational achievement tend to __________.

A. do more poorly in school B. do well in school C. struggle more than their peers with adolescent egocentricism D. hold onto the personal fable longer than their peers