Jacob is in middle school. He tells his friends that he is worried that he would fail in his biology test because the biology project reviewer deliberately asked him tough questions that he could not answer. This scenario illustrates the _____.

A. self-fulfilling prophecy
B. external attribution style
C. Pygmalion effect
D. boomerang effect


Answer: B

Psychology

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a. ?only the surface structure b. ?only the deep structure c. ?both the surface structure and the deep structure d. ?neither the surface structure nor the deep structure

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Managers on the same level have the same amount of influence.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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What are psychological factors that are related to good health? Can it be concluded that such factors have a direct effect

on health? Explain your response thoroughly What will be an ideal response?

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The abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, allowing you to make inferences and enabling you to understand the relationships among concepts are called ____ intelligence.?

a. fluid
b. componential
c. crystallized
d. analytical

Psychology