A 15-year-old, needs to assess a risky situation to quickly get the gist of what is happening and glean that the situation is a dangerous context. She is unlikely to benefit from engaging in reflective, detailed, higher-level cognitive analysis about a decision, especially as it is a high-risk, real-world context where she would get bogged down in trivial detail. This kind of decision making is explained by the
Read DetailsA girl believes that her qualities and learning abilities cannot change, despite all her efforts. Therefore, she has decided not to try at all and let her grades plummet. In the context of Carol Dweck’s description of mindsets, which of the following best describes the girl’s mindset?
Read DetailsThe average distance between the Earth and the sun is referred to as one Astronomical Unit (AU), which is approximately 149,600,000 km – or about 93 million miles. The measure is an average because throughout the year the distance between the Earth and the sun changes. This is because the Earth travels around the sun in an elliptical orbit shaped like an oval rather than a circle. The Astronomical Unit is a relative measure of how close objects are in the solar system. Consider the distance between the Earth and its moon, which is approximately 380,000 km. If we multiply by the ratio of AU to kilometers, we can convert this distance to Astronomical Units.
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