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james0929 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Gabriel participated in a study where he was given an IQ test described as an excellent predictor of future academic and financial success. Gabriel performed poorly on the test. Gabriel is likely to attribute his low scores to

A) bad luck, thereby misapplying the representativeness heuristic.
B) the invalidity of the test, thereby protecting his self-esteem.
C) unclear instructions, thereby making the fundamental attribution error.
D) his own ability, thereby demonstrating the actor-observer bias.

Question 2

As a self-enhancement strategy, people tend to value quite highly those characteristics and abilities that

A) prominent leaders possess.
B) they don't possess.
C) they happen to possess.
D) are made salient by the media.