What is confirmation bias?
What will be an ideal response?
The tendency to look for evidence that we are right and in so doing, we ignore contradictory evidence.
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________ adolescents are sometimes described as members of the model minority
A) Native American B) Hispanic American C) African American D) Asian American
Showing a client how his or her irrational and self-defeating beliefs are causing problems is most characteristic of ________ therapy
a. behavioral b. rational-emotive c. psychoanalytic d. client-centered
Friends influence children's development during the middle childhood years in all of the following ways EXCEPT __________
a) friendship provides a child with information about the world as well as themselves b) friendship provides emotional support the helps the child respond more effectively to stress c) friendship teaches a child how to communicate and interact with others d) friendships provide more security than relationships with parents and other family members
Sarah goes into her final exams feeling like she doesn't know anything, that she is dumb,
and that she is going to fail every exam. She will probably have a more intense reaction to stress than other people because a. in general she has more stress in her life. b. she feels she lacks the ability to cope with the demands of finals. c. she is undergoing school-related mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion. d. she has a Type A personality with a great deal of anger and hostility.