When making judgments about the personalities of other people, children are biased toward __________.
A. accepting negative behavior as an indicator of the person's personality
B. accepting positive behavior as an indicator of the person's personality
C. viewing other people more positively than they view themselves
D. viewing other people more negatively than they view themselves
Answer: B
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a. when behavior is tallied by a trained observer b. when participants do not need to have special skills c. when work roles are made especially prominent d. when other people are present
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a. hippocampus. c. thalamus. b. hypothalamus. d. brain stem.
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A) ?the relationship between two variables B) ?the mean differences between two or more treatments C) ?the shape or proportions for a population distribution D) ?the significance of a regression estimate
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