Betty wants to describe how a person's knowledge and understanding of the social world influences development. The term that she should use to express this idea is:

People are least likely to procrastinate when they are genuinely interested in the task and believe they can gain something from it. This is known as a(n) ________ goal

a. mastery-avoidance b. mastery-approach c. performance-avoidance d. avoidance-mastery

When 7- to 8-month-olds hear a word repeatedly in different sentences, later they

a. pay less attention to that word than to words they have not heard previously. b. pay more attention to that word than to words they have not heard previously. c. pay the same amount of attention to the previously heard word and new words. d. cannot recognize sound patterns that they hear repeatedly.