Ivan, a teacher, spends most of his time working with male students because he believes that they have the best chance of being admitted into the advanced program. As a result, the male students perform better and are admitted more often than females. This example illustrates
A. a self-fulfilling prophecy.
B. a self-serving bias hypothesis.
C. prejudice without discrimination.
D. the contact hypothesis.
Answer: A
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In his book Adolescence (1904), G. Stanley Hall described the period between childhood and adulthood as a time of
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