Parents Seldom Spend a Lot of Time Explaining to Their

question 40

Multiple Choice

Parents seldom spend a lot of time explaining to their children how to ride a bicycle.Instead,they often get a bike with training wheels and let the children learn for themselves how to ride a bike.This is because our understanding about how to ride a bicycle is based on

• A)automatic processing that is difficult to describe to someone else.
• B)controlled processing that can only be learned by experience.
• C)intuition that is difficult to express in language that a child can understand.
• D)personal experience that is not likely to be believed by the child.

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Definitions:

Psychological Payoff

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Interpersonal

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Psychotherapy

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Depression

A common and serious mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a lack of interest or pleasure in activities.