Seventy-Year-Old Ace Decides That He Cannot Remain Effective at All

question 163

Multiple Choice

Seventy-year-old Ace decides that he cannot remain effective at all types of gambling so he decides to focus only on blackjack, with the hopes that this narrow focus will allow him to perform better in this one area. According to the SOC approach, the decision to abandon other forms of gambling represents

• A) selection.
• B) optimization.
• C) compensation.
• D) plasticity.

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