In lecture you learned about each of the following ways in which people avoid negative ability attributions to protect their self-worth EXCEPT:
a. setting unrealistically high goals
b. defensive pessimism
c. cheating
d. procrastination
Ans: c. cheating
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a. confirmation b. extended contact c. self-fulfilling prophecy d. illusory correlation
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a. working b. eidetic c. procedural d. integrative
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a. has difficulty understanding what she hears. b. has difficulty repeating exactly what she hears. c. can produce words but cannot compose sentences. d. can talk but not remember what she has said. e. cannot understand what others are saying.
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