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With the birth of Olga s first child, she felt more fulfilled than ever before. However, she also acknowledged feelings of concern and fear over being able to meet all of her parental responsibilities while maintaining personal happiness and satisfaction. Olga s feelings reflect __________

a) relativistic thinking
b) cognitive-affective complexity
c) dualistic thinking
d) pragmatic thinking

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b) Cognitive-affective complexity

Step-by-step explanation:

Cognitive-affective complexity refers to a form of thinking that people develop as they grow older. A person experiences cognitive-affective complexity when he/she is aware of positive and negative feelings that a situation makes them feel and what they think about the situation.

A person who has a high cognitive-affective complexity tends to perceive nuances, subtle differences and contradictions in her experiences.

Olga has just given birth and she feels fulfilled buy she also acknowledges feelings of concern and fear over being able to meet all of her parental responsibilities. So Olga has a dissonance between how she feels (fulfilled but afraid and concerned at the same time). Therefore she is perceiving all the contradictions that her new status as a parent has.

Thus, this reflects b) cognitive-affective complexity.

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