Gerardo Believes That Every Time He Picks Up a Penny

question 73

Multiple Choice

Gerardo believes that every time he picks up a penny he is blessed with good fortune, due to the fact that, the last time he picked up a penny he had a lottery win, and the time before that he got a big bonus at work. Gerardo's perception is likely a product of a(n) ________.

• A) affect intensity
• B) high-positive affect
• C) emotional dimensions
• D) self-serving bias
• E) illusory correlation

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Definitions:

Zone Of Proximal Development

A concept in educational psychology referring to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can achieve with guidance and encouragement.

Vygotsky

A Russian psychologist who is best known for his theory of social development, which argues that community and language play central roles in the process of making meaning.

Concrete-Operations

A stage in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children aged approximately 7 to 11 years can logically reason about concrete situations but not abstract ones.

Formal-Operations

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