Considering the Textbook's Definitions of Threat and Challenge, Identify the Situation

question 12

Multiple Choice

Considering the textbook's definitions of threat and challenge, identify the situation below that is most likely to pose a threat rather than a challenge?

• A)You think you can probably make the basketball team, but only if you practice every day at home.
• B)You're asked to climb up a twenty-foot rope hanging from the ceiling.You've climbed ten feet before, but you've never climbed twenty feet.
• C)You've invited a professor to dinner and are trying a recipe you've never tried before.
• D)You are required to take a college course in nuclear physics, even though you failed basic physics in high school.

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Definitions:

Binet

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who, along with Theodore Simon, developed the first intelligence test in the early 20th century, known as the Binet-Simon scale.

Phonemes

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

Linguistic Heuristics

Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb used in language processing and problem-solving based on linguistic information.

Syntax

The set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a language, determining word order and arrangement.