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There remains some debate as to whether the causes of teenage rebellion are completely natural or necessary. Some posit that an adolescent's failure to achieve a sense of identity can result in role confusion and an inability to choose a vocation, and/or that these pressures may develop from being viewed as adults. [6]
However, “although they think they are fully capable of making their own decisions” most teens “lack the maturity and life experience to make good, well-thought-out decisions consistently."
Quintilian and classical rhetoric used the term color for the presenting of an action in the most favourable possible perspective. [5] Laurence Sterne in the eighteenth century took up the point, arguing that, were a man to consider his actions, "he will soon find, that such of them, as strong inclination and custom have prompted him to commit, are generally dressed out and painted with all ...
Tendency to have selectivity in perception, attention, decision making, and motivation based on the biological state of the body. Anchoring bias: The inability of people to make appropriate adjustments from a starting point in response to a final answer. It can lead people to make sub-optimal decisions.
Back-to-school season is here! Before you kick off the school year and dive back into all of those tests and essays, lighten it up by reading through these hysterical answers. Who knows, maybe you ...
Have a fun family game night with these brain twisters! The post 37 of the Best Riddles for Teens (with Answers) appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Jumping to conclusions (officially the jumping conclusion bias, often abbreviated as JTC, and also referred to as the inference-observation confusion [1]) is a psychological term referring to a communication obstacle where one "judge[s] or decide[s] something without having all the facts; to reach unwarranted conclusions".
If people have too much external justification for their actions, cognitive dissonance does not occur, and thus, attitude change is unlikely to occur. On the other hand, when people cannot find external justification for their behavior, they must attempt to find internal justification—they reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes or behaviors.