Social Referencing Is

question 10

Multiple Choice

Social referencing is:

• A) when one makes an upwards comparison by contrasting themselves with a high-performing peer.
• B) when one makes a downwards comparison by contrasting themselves with a low-performing peer.
• C) the ability to cooperate and work in a group.
• D) the ability to use the emotional displays of others to guide one's own behavior.

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Definitions:

Stages of Modeling

A process in which individuals learn to imitate or mimic behaviors observed in others, often broken down into stages including attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation.

Attention

The act or faculty of concentrating on a particular stimulus or task, excluding other perceivable information.

Reproduction

The biological process by which new individual organisms are produced from their "parents".

Content Relevance

The extent to which information or material is applicable and meaningful to the topic or context of interest.