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Personal Application Questions

PsychologyPersonal Application Questions
38.

Describe a natural concept that you know fully but that would be difficult for someone else to understand and explain why it would be difficult.

39.

Can you think of examples of how language affects cognition?

40.

Which type of bias do you recognize in your own decision making processes? How has this bias affected how you’ve made decisions in the past and how can you use your awareness of it to improve your decisions making skills in the future?

41.

What influence do you think emotional intelligence plays in your personal life?

42.

In thinking about the case of Candace described earlier, do you think that Candace benefitted or suffered as a result of consistently being passed on to the next grade?

43.

Do you believe your level of intelligence was improved because of the stimuli in your childhood environment? Why or why not?

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