Research Showing That Situations Can Exert a Stronger Influence on People's

question 13

Multiple Choice

Research showing that situations can exert a stronger influence on people's behavior than any individual predispositions highlights the ____.

• A)accuracy of the general trait approach
• B)power of the id
• C)limits of the general trait approach
• D)human need for self-actualization

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Definitions:

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, from about 7 to 11 years of age, where children can use logic to solve problems but still struggle with abstract and hypothetical concepts.

Piaget's Stages

the theory proposed by Jean Piaget that outlines the four stages of cognitive development in children: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Conservation

A cognitive ability, identified by Piaget, that enables a child to understand that substances remain the same in quantity even when their shapes change.