Cicely Is Trying to Prevent Teenage Inner-City Boys from Joining

question 83

Multiple Choice

Cicely is trying to prevent teenage inner-city boys from joining gangs.She has set up a program in the boys' neighborhood to teach job skills.Cicely is most likely a ____ psychologist.

• A) clinical
• B) community
• C) counseling
• D) social

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Definitions:

Cognitive Development

The process by which individuals perceive, think, and gain understanding of their world through the interaction of genetic and learned factors.

Information Processing Approaches

Models that seek to identify the ways individuals take in, use, and store information.

Piaget's Approach

A theory of cognitive development that describes how children construct a mental model of the world through stages of learning and understanding.

Short-term Memory

The capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.