Let's assume that most high school students have attitude at one time or another. Mr. Schmidt, a high school athletic director, is a very prejudiced individual. He usually notices when the black students in school have attitude and rarely notices when the white students show attitude.. Consequently, he continues to believe that black students are disrespectful to authority. His tendency to focus on social information in a biased way that supports his prejudiced belief illustrates the ____.
a. scapegoat theory
b. self-serving bias
c. confirmation bias
d. jigsaw classroom
Question 2
Jonah is in his psychology class and has just gotten his third exam score back. It's an F again He hasn't passed one single exam this semester. He decides to quit studying for that class at all since it hasn't seemed to help much. Jonah is exhibiting ____.
a. risk aversion
b. temporal discounting
c. the certainty effect
d. learned helplessness
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