What does self-handicapping accomplish?
a. It provides an internal attribution for failure.
b. It provides an external attribution for failure.
c. It increases the probability of success.
d. It enables someone to avoid an activity altogether.
b
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a. ?boredom b. ?disliking c. ?liking d. ?ambivalence
Children in middle childhood make social comparisons. Which of the following statements best reflects a 10-year-old's social comparisons?
"I'm good at spelling but there are three kids in my class who are better than I." "I'm a fast runner and I like soccer." "I'm really good at math." "Johnny pushed me and then took my toy truck!"
Define self-recognition and describe how Lewis and Brooks (1978) obtained evidence that most children display recognition of their physical selves around 21 months of age
What will be an ideal response?
Judy is interested in whether a local newspaper tends to have a conservative or liberal constituency of readers
She randomly selects letters to the editor from the paper's op-ed section and then codes the letters based on whether they express conservative or liberal ideas. Judy is trying to answer her question by doing a(n) a. field experiment. b. ethnography. c. laboratory experiment. d. content analysis.