In a research that looked mainly at how failure feedback affects subsequent performance on similar tasks and whether failure affects high and low self-esteem persons differently, Brown and Dutton (1995) found that people who score high on self-esteem tend to:
A. lose their motivation to perform the second task after failing once.
B. be more concerned with avoiding failure and refrain from performing subsequent tasks after failing in a task.
C. work just as hard on the second task as they did on the first task in which they failed.
D. readily accept their failure on the first task.
Answer: C
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a. display rules b. cultural universals c. gender roles d. gender stereotypes
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A. obedience. B. empathy. C. detachment. D. gender identity.
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