Which one of the following illustrates a phenomenon known as the personal fable?
a. Olivia becomes very popular with her peers when she makes up a story that she is from a small European country and has royal blood in her family.
b. Wendy gets sick more often than her classmates and so asks her teachers to be more lenient in grading her assignments.
c. Jonathan thinks of himself as a nobody, someone whom his peers rarely notice.
d. William believes he is unique among human beings, with thoughts and feelings no one else has ever had.
Question 2
Children's self-concepts become increasingly stable, and therefore increasingly more difficult to change, as they grow older.
Using what you have learned about the development of students' sense of self, choose the most likely explanation for the increasing stability of the self-concept over time:
a. Maturational factors play a major role in the formation of the self-concept; these factors continue to unfold throughout childhood.
b. Research studies indicate that the self-concept has a strong genetic component.
c. Many teachers intuitively sense how students feel about themselves, and such intuitions invariably influence teachers' behaviors toward the students.
d. Children will behave in ways consistent with their self-concepts, thereby reaffirming their views of themselves.
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