The tendency to attribute personal success to personal factors (skill, ability, or effort) and attribute failure to factors outside oneself is known as the
A. halo effect.
B. self-serving bias.
C. assumed-similarity bias.
D. fundamental attribution error.
Answer: B
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
One of the major differences between individuals with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder is that patients with the personality disorder generally
A. have more obsessive thoughts. B. show more compulsive and ritualistic behaviors. C. do not have obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. D. has more insight into their problems
Around the first birthday, the symbolic capacity called "displaced reference" emerges, which allows toddlers to
A) use abstract thought to solve problems. B) form initial mental representations that can be used to evaluate further information. C) categorize objects on the basis of their physical attributes. D) recognize that words can be used to cue mental images of things not physically present.
_____ is the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of a loved one.
Grief Denial Obsession Anger