Luanne's Parents Are in the Process of Getting a Divorce

question 54

Multiple Choice

Luanne's parents are in the process of getting a divorce. She is so distracted and upset by the situation that she sometimes has trouble paying attention in class, and her performance on assignments and quizzes has slipped a bit. She worries that her teachers might think she simply doesn't care about her schoolwork, when nothing could be further from the truth. Luanne is showing:

• A) empathy
• B) recursive thinking
• C) prosocial reasoning
• D) a social-cognitive bias

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Definitions:

Song Matching

A behavioral phenomenon where a bird responds to the song of another individual with a song that is similar in structure and pattern.

Young Adult

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Neighbor's Song

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Darwinian Natural Selection

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