When the 55-year-old executive sat in his office thinking about his 25-year-old colleague with two tattoos, a piercing, no watch, and a shameless propensity for chatting up the boss, he could have been using selective perception to screen out how effective an employee the younger man actually was?

giant impact theory - the moon was formed from the collision between earth and another mars-sized body.

colliding planetesimals hypothesis - the moon was formed from the same cloud of material as earth.

capture hypothesis - the moon was locked into orbit by earths gravity as it was passing by it.

accretion hypothesis - the moon was formed from collisions and combining of planetesimals.

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answer; triadic reciprocal determinism;

answer; having the power of reprieve means being able to release people from punishment;