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bobthebuilder

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on: Jun 19, 2018

The phenomenon in which a test taker exerts less effort to protect their self-worth when faced with the expectation that they may not perform well is referred to as

a. the biasing effect
b. self-handicapping
c. stereotype threat
d. the expectancy effect

Question 2

A measure of how much scores within a distribution differ among themselves is the

a. mean.
b. frequency.
c. variance.
d. median.

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poopface

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c

bobthebuilder

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Reply #2 on: Jun 19, 2018

Thank you!

poopface

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Reply #3 on: Jun 19, 2018

Happy to help

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