Suppose you work on a group project for one of your classes. You do 80% of the work for the project and also do an excellent job of presenting it to the rest of the class. However, your teacher gives a higher grade to another member of the group who actually contributed very little to the project but who is very outgoing and flamboyant. This example is most similar to the effect of
A) ?blocking.
B) ?US revaluation.
C) ?latent inhibition.
D) ?overshadowing.
D
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