According to Mead's The Social Self, Mead claims that self-consciousness (in the sense of awareness of the self) arises only in the presence of conflict that causes disintegration of the organization of habit. Does this imply that, without conflict in social interaction, a person stagnates in his or her existing state?

To what kinds of messages might the brain respond to keep you balanced on one foot?

Psychologists studying infant memory want to determine at what age babies can remember specific events. an experimenter uses several puppets to demonstrate a series of actions while the infant watches. after a delay, the experimenter records how many of the actions the child imitates when playing with the puppets. what is the dependent variable?

Read the scenario. samira is a freshman basketball player who hopes to go to college on a basketball scholarship. she is offered the chance to play on her school’s varsity basketball team, which plays in tournaments during holiday breaks. samira usually spends her breaks working at the local hardware store. after careful consideration, samira decides to stay on the freshman basketball team and keep working over breaks.the fact that samira may miss out on a scholarship opportunity by staying on the freshman team illustrates-a cause.-minor consequences.-a trade off.-unexpected risk.