As you share your high school transcript with your children, you notice that you attribute the "A's" to your hard work and discipline. The poor grades are explained by telling your children that the teacher was bad and the tests were unfair. Oops! You realize that you've committed the:
A. covariation principle
B. self-serving bias
C. fundamental attribution error
D. actor-observer effect
Answer: B
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c. Kinsey did not phrase his questions the same way that later surveys did. d. Kinsey did not attempt to obtain a random or representative sample.
A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior is called:
a. inner self b. emotional intelligence c. self-efficacy d. self-esteem e. none of the above
Each person creates his or her private world by making choices in order to confront and overcome feelings of meaninglessness and isolation, according to
a. existential therapists. b. Gestalt therapists. c. psychoanalysts. d. client-centered therapists.
"In what way has volunteerism influenced your personal relationships?" is an example of a(n) ____
a. semantic differential question b. closed-ended question c. Likert-type question d. open-ended question