Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest lecturer was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person. The visitor then lectured for twenty minutes, and behaved in a very cocky, arrogant way during the lecture
All students viewed the lecturer as arrogant, but differed in their assessments of how humorous he was. These results suggest that schemas are
a. modifiable.
b. more likely to be used to interpret ambiguous behaviors.
c. abandoned in the face of ambiguous behaviors.
d. specific to a particular situation.
Answer: B
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