As Kyle Has Gotten Older, He Has Come to Understand

question 21

Multiple Choice

As Kyle has gotten older, he has come to understand that, when two of his coworkers don't like each other, he can sometimes smooth their disagreements so that they can work productively together. This ability is best captured by viewpoints that emphasize:

• A) formal operations
• B) postformal thought
• C) dialectical thought
• D) emotional intelligence

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Definitions:

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex; in psychology, it also refers to the ability to perceive and differentiate between stimuli.

Stimulus Generalization

The process in which a response that is originally elicited by a specific stimulus also becomes elicited by other, similar stimuli.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a stimulus which occurs because of previous conditioning.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, leading to the increase or decrease of certain behaviors over time.