Making your own judgments and regulating your own behavior is known as what?

Consider the following (fictitious) conclusion reached by a social psychologist: "After analyzing a sample of over 578 experiments, we have concluded that the question of whether men are more likely than women to help is difficult to answer

Based on the findings of this large number of studies, we have concluded that men are more likely to help when helping demands physical risk or ‘chivalry'; otherwise, there are no reliable gender differences in helping." This conclusion about the reliability of the relationship between gender and helping was most likely based on a. pure conjecture. b. surveys of researchers. c. meta-analytic techniques. d. experimental procedures.

When Dr. Bentley is asked to explain troubled adolescents, she says, "The only way to explain the problems of adolescents is to study them in relation to their parents and the culture that surrounds them.". Dr. Bentley is most likely a proponent of ____ theory

a. psychodynamic b. cognitive developmental c. ecological d. social cognitive