Acentral tenet of developmental psychopathology is that to understand maladaptive behavior it is necessary to consider:

On a production possibility curve, data points that fall outside of the curve represent what

Adolescents can display egocentrism when they become about changes in their lives.

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by stasser and titus (1985) about student council president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that in another condition, members had unique information that other group members didn't know. in the second (unshared information) condition, the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition. this occurred because groups seldom can agree on who is most expert. focus discussion on the information that all members know. often ignore dissenting opinions. avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.