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Wadzanai

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Elliott, a 43-year-old engineer, has volunteered to teach a group of middle-school students some hands-on engineering basics, hoping to get them oriented toward a math-science career path.
 
  Performance of the 1/3 of the group, who are girls, is lower than average. What is one likely cause for this effect?
  A) the girls have supported Elliott's belief that girls cannot perform as well as boys in engineering
  B) the girls did not engage in self-stereotyping
  C) Elliott did not call on the boys more than the girls when he asked questions in the class
  D) when one girl did well on a board problem, Elliott did not act surprised
  E) the guys were not more highly motivated to please Elliott

Question 2

In a study, participants who were allowed to express the influence of a prime, during a first task, were ________ by that prime during a second similar task.
 
  A) less influenced
  B) more influenced
  C) influenced at about the same level
  D) unable to complete the second task due to a strong influence
  E) so suspicious that there ceased to exist any influence at all



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mochi09

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A




Wadzanai

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Excellent


jackie

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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