About 94% of university professors rate their teaching as above average, illustrating:
A) implicit egotism.
B) an internal locus of control.
C) self-verification errors.
D) the self-serving bias.
D) the self-serving bias.
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a. True b. False
Preschoolers who watch the television show Dora the Explorer have been shown to ____ in kindergarten than children who have not watched the show.
A. be less social B. be more violent C. have larger vocabularies D. have less inner speech
According to research discussed in the text, if you try to fake a smile, the recipient might perceive it as fake because
A) people tend to show their teeth too much in a false smile. B) people have a difficult time controlling the muscles that normally crinkle their eyes in a true smile. C) people who are faking smiles tend to move their muscles in a highly symmetrical manner. D) people who are faking smiles often fail to make eye contact.
Consuela wants to run an experiment testing the effects of time of day on cognitive ability. Consuela is the experimenter for all the participants randomly assigned to the "morning" condition, and her research assistant Rick is the experimenter for the "evening" condition. What is the confound in this study?
A) cognitive ability B) time of day C) gender of the experimenter D) random assignment of participants