If Middle-Aged Ellison, Now a Successful Lawyer, Wants to Change

question 10

Multiple Choice

If middle-aged Ellison, now a successful lawyer, wants to change careers to become a master chef, she has the potential to do that if she:

• A) can tolerate being a novice in a new field.
• B) is willing to appreciate what she'll learn from being an initiate, despite the low prestige.
• C) is able to learn from others who know more than she does.
• D) all of the choices

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Definitions:

Declarative Memory

A type of long-term memory that involves the capacity to recall factual information, events, and concepts explicitly.

Overconfidence

A cognitive bias where an individual's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy.

Source-Monitoring Errors

Mistakes made when individuals fail to distinguish the origin of their memories, attributing them incorrectly to specific sources.

Reality-Monitoring Errors

Failures in the ability to distinguish between memories of actual events and internal imaginings or thoughts, leading to confusion about what has truly occurred.