Which of the following is true of children, especially boys, who overestimated their physical abilities compared with their more accurate peers?
a. They were not as likely to be asked to engage in play.
b. They were disciplined for misbehavior more often.
c. They were more academically successful.
d. They made more trips to the emergency room.
D
You might also like to view...
Claude, a Baptist teenager, reads a flawed study showing that Baptists are smarter than most people. Then he reads a second study with similar flaws proposing that Baptists are poor leaders. What would you predict will happen? a. He would overlook the flaws in the first study and dismiss the findings of the second study. b. He would now believe that Baptists are poor leaders
c. He would now believe that Baptists are both smarter and poor leaders. d. He would dismiss the findings of the first study and overlook the flaws in the second study.
Which of the following is true of Maslow's theory?
A) It suggests that individuals can simultaneously strive to achieve physiological and self-actualization needs. B) It states that esteem needs represent the highest level of needs. C) It accounts for individual differences in motivation. D) It suggests that human behavior is not just mechanical and aimed toward survival and the reduction of tension.
According to studies of achievement and locus of control, someone who is an external in college is likely to have
A. better grades than internals in college. B. received lower scores on achievement tests in high school. C. performed better on academic tests in elementary school than high school. D. all of the above
Phelps and colleagues (2000) found that amygdala activity in response to the presentation of Black faces was correlated with ______.
a. scores on an implicit measure of racial prejudice b. scores on an implicit measure of racial prejudice, but only when the faces were popular and respected figures c. scores on an implicit measure of racial prejudice, but only when the faces were unfamiliar individuals d. scores on an explicit measure of racial prejudice