The teacher assigns you to work with the star football player for a group project. Because most athletes you know are not very smart and not interested in school, you expect to do all the work
You are pleasantly surprised to discover that your partner is extremely intelligent and very diligent. You believe that you got lucky and suspect that your partner is unlike most other athletes. The fact that your schema for the academic competence of athletes has not changed even in the face of disconfirming evidence illustrates what effect?
a. A self-fulfilling prophecy
b. The priming effect
c. The perseverance effect
d. Anchoring and adjustment
Answer: C
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A set point refers to ____.
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