In a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007), they found that when judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations, they were more likely to find the confession of a suspect voluntary when the camera focused only on the suspect. Why?
a. They could read his expressions of guilt more clearly.
b. They could see how nervous the suspect was.
c. The perceptual salience of the suspect triggered the fundamental attribution error.
d. They failed to see how the suspect was persuaded.
Answer: C
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A. dopamines B. monoamines C. benzodiazepines D. phenothiazines
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a. and a self-blaming attributional style are at a disadvantage. b. become more demoralized after a failure. c. often have negative expectations about their performance. d. experience all of these.