Wanda listens as her neighbor plays his stereo at top volume, and she decides he must be thoughtless and self-centered if he doesn't realize how annoying the noise is for the rest of the neighborhood. Wanda's attribution for her neighbor's behavior is consistent with:
a. a self-serving bias
b. a self-fulfilling prophecy
c. the fundamental attribution error
d. information integration theory
C
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A. Lose B. Stabilize C. Reconstruct D. Terminate
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What will be an ideal response?
The six steps of the SQ4R, in order, are
a. survey, question, read, recite, reflect, and review. b. sequence, query, read, recite, review, and reflect. c. skim, question, read, relate, recite, and reflect. d. scan, query, read, recite, review, and relate.
Bob and Joe are given the task of dividing $10 between them. Bob initially makes an offer to divide the money such that he takes $7 for himself and gives Joe $3. If you were looking at an MRI scan of Joe's brain, what would you see?
a) No activity in the limbic system as this is clearly a rational task. b) Activity in the limbic system, but little activity anywhere else. c) Activity in both the limbic system and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex because both emotion and rationality are involved. d) Bob's MRI scan would be more informative than Joe's to understand how Joe will react.