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What is group polarization, and when does it occur? Consider four different theoretical approaches that can explain group polarization. What research supports each of these explanations?
Mental Processes
are activities of the mind involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering.
Executive Control Functions
Cognitive processes including planning, working memory, attention, problem solving, verbal reasoning, inhibition, mental flexibility, task switching, and initiation and monitoring of actions.
Practical Intelligence
A form of intelligence related to the ability to solve everyday problems by utilizing experience-based knowledge.
Gardner
Refers to Howard Gardner, a psychologist known for his theory of multiple intelligences, which suggests people have different kinds of intelligences.
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