You are sitting in class, and a student arrives 20 minutes late. As they come in, they breathe a heavy sigh and make a lot of noise while sitting down. Provide an internal and an external attribution for this behavior.
What will be an ideal response?
An example of an internal attribution would be that the student is irresponsible and overslept, and is just rude in not being able to understand how disruptive they are. An external attribution might be that the bus ran late, after they had already dealt with an overflowing toilet at home before they left.
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What does the evidence say about the idea that we should educate students differently based on their style as visual learners or verbal learners?
a. Applying this distinction greatly benefits most students. b. Applying this distinction is important in elementary school but not high school. c. Applying this distinction is important in high school but not elementary school. d. Nearly all evidence says this distinction is not helpful.
Kai is a typical clinical psychologist. Most likely, he has completed
a. only a bachelor's degree. b. a bachelor's degree and two years of graduate work. c. a bachelor's degree and five years of graduate work. d. a bachelor's degree, a medical degree, and a three-year residency.
A psychologist who views depression as due to unconscious sexual conflicts is viewing abnormal behavior from the ____ perspective
a. ?humanistic b. ?behavioral c. ?psychoanalytic d. ?cognitive
In both the classical and operant procedures, generalization will be greatest to stimuli that
a. most closely resembles the original training stimulus. b. are the most different from the original training stimulus. c. occur early in the generalization testing procedure. d. occur last in the generalization testing procedure. e. were blocked during training.