A person who thinks he or she is a total failure will often act like a total failure and may even give up trying to do better, creating a ________.
A. performative contradiction
B. self-refuting idea
C. self-fulfilling prophecy
D. subject-expectancy effect
Answer: C
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a. ?inclusion of faculty women in her sample b. ?attribution of sex differences to genetic factors c. ?attribution of sex differences to social and environmental factors d. ?inclusion of women faculty on her dissertation committee e. ?endorsement of G. Stanley Hall
Monitoring how well you understand something and taking steps to understand it better is called
a. conservation. b. metacognition. c. industry. d. classification.
Descartes placed a pencil in a glass of water to explain the phenomenon of ____
a. reflection c. diffraction b. refraction d. dispersion
Differentiate between those in elderhood characterized by usual aging and those who are termed to be successful agers.What distinguishes one from the other? What benefits are there to being characterized as one over the other?
What will be an ideal response?