Self-fulfilling prophecies most often are a result of
a. deliberate attempts by people to confirm their schemas.
b. inadvertent and unconscious influences of individuals' schemas.
c. deliberate attempts to treat people in an unbiased manner.
d. priming.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
In girls, the onset of puberty brings the lowering of the voice at approximately age
11. 13. 14. 15.
Compared to their parents, adolescents in immigrant families
A) become acculturated more quickly. B) place less stress on the importance of family obligations. C) hold more individualistic values and beliefs. D) All of the above.
What is expressed emotion?
a) flat affect in people with schizophrenia b) a diagnostic criterion for schizoaffective disorder c) a goal of insight-oriented therapy for people suffering from schizophrenia d) family members' attitudes toward a member whose behavior is disturbed
______ involves being unable to swap problem solving strategies, while ______ refers to being unable to consider novel uses for objects.
a. Analogical inconsistency; mental set b. Functional fixedness; analogical inconsistency c. Mental set; functional fixedness d. Analogical inconsistency; functional fixedness