Mary is helping her son, Dean, put together a difficult, but manageable, puzzle. When Dean tries to insert a piece in the wrong place a few times, Mary points to the bottom of the puzzle and says, "Does it go down here?" Mary is engaging in

A) scaffolding.
B) dual representation.
C) proximal teaching.
D) transitive inference.

A

Psychology

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a) sensory b) limbic c) association d) dopaminergic

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Linda was not voted "Most Popular" in her graduating class. According to her thinking, if she is not most popular, then she must be unpopular. What would Beck call this type of cognitive error?

a. selective perception c. overgeneralization b. magnification d. absolutist thinking

Psychology