According to the Text, Optimistic Bias Is Defined as

question 57

Multiple Choice

According to the text, optimistic bias is defined as

• A) the gap between what children and adolescents can accomplish alone and what they are capable of doing if guided by a more competent peer.
• B) the tendency to assume that accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than ourselves.
• C) the cognitive process that occurs when a scheme is changed to adapt new information or assimilate prior knowledge.
• D) an aspect of short-term memory that refers to where information may be influenced by heuristic thinking.

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Definitions:

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Piaget

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