A student arrives late to class and is noisy in sitting down and getting out his books. You assume that he rode the train to school and it was late again. You have assigned __________ to his behavior.
A. an internal attribution
B. an external attribution
C. a self-serving bias
D. a fundamental attribution error
Answer: B
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Which of the following statements best summarizes the material on adolescents' body image and physical self-concepts?
a. Prior to adulthood, both males and females are generally positive about their bodies. b. Surprisingly, adolescent males show more concern about their physical appearance than do adolescent females. c. Athletic competence is a strong predictor of self-worth in both females and males. d. In general, adolescent males feel valued for their athletic competence, whereas adolescent females feel valued for their physical appearance.
Emitted, voluntary behavior is BEST modified by ________
a. trial and error b. classical conditioning c. aversive conditioning d. operant conditioning
What happened to "Brenda" as an adult?
a. He never married. b. He lived a healthy and happy life. c. He underwent estrogen treatments. d. He committed suicide.
Alfred Adler, a Neo-Freudian theorist, thought of people with chronically low self-esteem as having __________
a) an attentive parenting style b) an inferiority complex c) physical illnesses d) schizophrenia