When a president blames illegal immigrants for his country's problems when they are not really the cause, it is referred to as:
A. projection
B. just-world phenomenon
C. social loafing
D. scapegoating
Answer: D. scapegoating
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Maeko's mother is impressed with how fast her daughter seems to be growing up. Maeko is drawing a castle, and she sticks with the task much longer than she would have a year ago. Maeko is demonstrating __________.
A. executive attention B. sustained attention C. theory of mind D. selective attention
Research has shown that one important source of engagement with schoolwork in high school is __________.
A. presentation of material that adolescents find easy B. an emphasis on high achievement and competition in the classroom C. perception by students that their teachers are caring and supportive D. requiring students to engage in memorization of facts rather than critical thinking and application of facts to real-world problems
For most children, ________ childhood is the period when true and lasting friendships begin to form
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Dr. smith develops the smith depression inventory and gives it to hundreds of patients with depression. he also gives those patients the widely used beck depression inventory. he finds that the average scores on the two questionnaires are highly correlated. dr. smith has demonstrated that the smith depression inventory has
a. concurrent validity b. predictive validity c. statistical prediction d. clinical prediction