One Reason That Popular Children Are More Skillful in Implementing

question 27

Multiple Choice

One reason that popular children are more skillful in implementing several steps of the information-processing model of competent social interaction is that they

• A) engage a peer group without regard for the consequences of that interaction.
• B) are better able to encode and decipher social information correctly.
• C) are more aggressive than rejected children when it comes to interjecting their own focus to a peer group.
• D) never retaliate against aggressors.

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Definitions:

Ortony

Andrew Ortony is a cognitive scientist known for his work in the areas of emotions and cognitive psychology.

Schemata

Cognitive structures that represent organized knowledge about a given concept or type of stimulus, based on past experience.

Brooks

Refers to the work of psychologist Allan Brooks, known for contributions in cognitive psychology, especially in visual and spatial memory.

Exemplars

Specific instances or examples within a category that are used in cognitive psychology to theorize how people categorize items and ideas.