Which One of the Following Is the Best Example of Social

question 76

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is the best example of social cognition?

• A)Max refuses to do the tasks his teacher assigns because he doesn't want to look foolish when he fails at them.
• B)Julie and Isabelle giggle as they try to imitate the haughty snobbishness of the obnoxious head cheerleader.
• C)Rhonda needs to be around other people all the time; she gets bored when she has to entertain herself.
• D)Luke tries to anticipate how Sheila might respond if he backs out of the science project the two of them have agreed to do together.

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Definitions:

Sense of Pain

The perception of discomfort or distress caused by injury, illness, or other stimuli.

Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies

A theory suggesting that the nature of a sensation depends on which sensory fibers are stimulated, not on how the fibers are stimulated.

Visual Part

The component of cognition concerned with processing visual information.

Signal Detection Tasks

Psychological tasks used to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (signals) and random patterns that distract from the information (noise).