Children Who Are Expert in an Area

question 104

Multiple Choice

Children who are expert in an area

• A) are highly motivated.
• B) acquire knowledge slowly, but accurately.
• C) have difficulty making sense of information that is outside their area of expertise.
• D) have difficulty organizing information.

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Definitions:

Norms, Values

The rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

Unconscious Mind

A part of the mind that influences thoughts and behavior without one's awareness, a concept fundamental in psychoanalytic theory.

Feral Children

Denotes children who have lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with no or little experience of human care, behavior, or human language.

Generalized Other

The perspectives and expectations of a network of others (or of society in general) that a child learns and then takes into account when shaping his or her own behavior.