Angela believes that people from Stovenia are basically dishonest. Angela is demonstrating
a. self-fulfilling prophecy.
b. fundamental attribution error. c. cognitive dissonance.
d. stereotyping.
e. a dispositional cause.
d
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Your textbook describes a study by Fiese and Skillman (2000), which focused on the gender-related messages that parents convey to their children. According to this research,
a. parents in the current decade provided the same kind of achievement messages to their daughters and sons. b. parents in the current decade uniformly emphasized achievement more for their sons than for their daughters. c. parents who were not very gender-stereotyped were likely to emphasize achievement equally for their sons and daughters. d. fathers consistently emphasized achievement for their sons, whereas mothers consistently emphasized achievement for their daughters.
In order to determine whether therapy is effective, we could randomly assign a group of clients into an experimental group and a(n) __________ group
a. waiting-list control b. spontaneous remission control c. therapy placebo effect d. preprofessional treatment
If you are studying math problems because you really want to win an award, psychologists would say you have _____ goals; if you are just hoping that you do not get the lowest score in the class, you are exhibiting _____ goals
a. avoidance; approach b. approach; mastery c. approach; avoidance d. avoidance; mastery
Vygotsky saw private speech as ______.
A. egocentric B. thought C. meaningless D. cognitively immature