When people explain their own behavior by providing internal attributions for actions that produce positive outcomes and external attributions for actions that produce negative outcomes:
a. they are making the fundamental attribution error
b. they initiate a self-fulfilling prophecy
c. they experience cognitive dissonance
d. they are showing a self-serving bias
D
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During the Korean War, the Chinese apparently influenced POWs by asking them to perform small, petty actions such as writing an essay explaining why communism was good. Later, their requests escalated as they asked for larger and larger concessions. This method of influence is like the ____ technique.
a. door in the face b. lowballing c. highballing d. idiosyncrasy credit e. foot in the door
The acceleration of decline in cognitive functioning related to impending death is known by what term?
A. brain death B. memory loss C. terminal decline D. plasticity loss
What words are most descriptive of the social cognitive approach?
a. id, ego, superego b. freedom, Electra complex, OCEAN c. trait, self-efficacy, unconscious motivation d. cognitive-personal factors, behaviors, environmental factors
Individuals in which of the following identity statuses have experienced moratorium?
A) Identity achieved B) Identity foreclosed C) Identity diffused D) all of the above