Exam 13: Knowing Ourselves, Knowing Others

Researchers assigned children who showed intrinsic interest in drawing to three distinct groups and used a common assessment to determine the percentage of time that children later chose to play with the art materials that they had played with during the experimental session.These researchers found:

Zev has a math test the next day.He believes that he can successfully complete his exam.This belief demonstrates high:

Noelany is a 12-month-old infant.When will she likely learn that she is a girl?

The ability to think about other people's beliefs and desires is known as:

Primates tend to show more sophisticated forms of social cognition when they are:

Which part of the brain plays a key role in inhibition?

Differentiate between the private self and the conceptual self.

________ refers to networks of social relations based on the ranking of group members.

Define the fundamental attribution error and provide an example of this bias.

All of the following statements are true of researchers who have proposed the existence of a theory of mind module EXCEPT:

Maxwell is 4 years old and his brother, Samuel, is 9 years old.Their mother tells them that they can watch 10 minutes of television right now or wait and watch an hour at bedtime.What is the most likely outcome?

Which of the following statements is correct about gaze following?

Rona is 4 years old and her sister, Amelia, is 10 years old.Explain how you would expect both girls to perform in a delayed gratification task and provide a possible explanation for your predictions.

Dr.DeOrnellas is a counselor at a local school.She is working with a student who is sure he will fail his math class.Describe this situation in terms of self-efficacy and discuss how Dr.DeOrnellas should intervene.

Janice believes her teacher is entirely good.She predicts her teachers' future behaviors based on this view.This illustrates:

The perception of the self as a girl or boy is referred to as:

________ self is our sense of ourselves as progressing along an autobiographical timeline.

All of the following statements about gender identity are true EXCEPT:

Sapphire is 5 years old and her sister, Marsha, is 10 years old.Which of the following is most likely?

Claudell is a 2-year-old who is being videotaped by her mother and is able to see the video display.Claudell notices that the person on the video display moves in a way that is synchronous with her movements.This illustrates a(n) ________ self-concept.