When a child has begun to monitor the reaction of someone else in order to decide how to react to an ambiguous situation, he or she is demonstrating

a. self-awareness.
b. chumship.
c. imprinting.
d. social referencing.

d

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The ____________ perspective suggests that one way of acquiring a fear reaction that may turn into a phobia is through modeling, that is, through observation and imitation.

a.) psychodynamic b.) cognitive c.) behavioral d.) sociocultural

Psychology

When describing or explaining the behavior of others, we tend

to blame the person; however, when explaining our own behavior, we tend to blame the situation. This phenomenon is referred to as _____ a) the fundamental attribution error. b) the self-serving bias. c) the situational attribution effect. d) the actor-observer effect.

Psychology