Which statement provides the best example of a self-fulfilling prophecy?
a. when poor school children are expected to perform less well than wealthy school children
b. when an athlete visualizes a superior performance and then goes out and actually wins
c. when minority candidates perform more poorly in interviews because interviewers act on their expectationsthat these candidates are unprepared
d. when people focus on the first information they have about another individual when making an impression
c
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Explain the changes in the brain that contribute to changes in adolescent thinking.
What will be an ideal response?
Wilhelm Wundt founded the school of psychology called
a. functionalism. c. behaviorism. b. psychoanalysis. d. structuralism.
In one study, criminal psychopaths were particularly impaired in their ability to perceive
A. angry facial expressions. B. happy facial expressions. C. fear in a person's voice. D. anger in a person's voice.
Which one of the following is TRUE when a distribution of scores is symmetric?
A. The mean, mode, and median will be the same. B. The mean will be greater than the median and the mode. C. The mode will be less than the mean and the median. D. The median will be different from the median and the mode