Janet, an administrative assistant at a London firm, is trying to find reasons for her boss's hostile behavior. She is likely to:
a. ignore her boss's dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions.
b. leap to the attribution that her boss's behavior corresponds to work demands.
c. explore her boss's personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
d. overestimate her boss's personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
d
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Generalizing from Roger's ideas about positive regard, which tactic should parents take with their children?
a. Prize their children regardless of their behavior at any particular time. b. Accept all of their children's behavior. c. Bestow approval on their children only when they behave properly. d. Teach their children to judge their behavior based on whether or not they meet other people's expectations. e. Reward their children for appropriate behavior and ignore their inappropriate behavior.
A high ______ in a distribution means that the scores are widely spread out across the scale.
A. variety B. variability C. skewed D. range
Anchoring and adjustment is relevant when we estimate confidence intervals because
a. we are overconfident about the adjustment process. b. we rely too heavily on the anchor. c. we make adjustments in our estimates that are larger than they should be. d. we should apply the adjustment prior to the anchor.
According to the typicality effect
A. objects in a category have a family resemblance to one another. B. objects that are not typical stand out and so are more easily remembered. C. items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group. D. we remember typical objects better than nontypical objects.