Explain what Wapnick believes is wrong with the commonly asked question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Why was Wapnick never able to answer the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and why did this concern her? What do the terms multipotentialite, polymath, and scanner mean? What are the three multipotentialite super-powers as described by Wapnick? Give a brief explanation of each superpower. Discuss what Wapnick hopes you take away from her talk. Do you see yourself as a specialist or a multipotentialite? The Psychology of Your Future Self Explain what Gilbert and his team discovered about how people’s values and personalities change over time. How did they do this research? Gilbert explains that we assume our likes and dislikes will stay the same over time. Why does he say that we do this? Why is time a powerful force? What does Gilbert tell us about human beings? Discuss how your personality and/or preferences have changed over the past 5 years. Explain.

Which of these are central ideas of chapter 4 of wheels of change? check all that apply.

Select all that apply. a character sketch may deal with only one character trait must be favorable must begin with a formal outline might include details of physical appearance or conduct

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.