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biggirl4568

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Tiffany has a hard time trusting other people her age because she believes they are irresponsible. Accordingly, when she makes dinner plans with one friend, she also makes backup plans with someone else, and she goes to one or the other.
 
  Her friends soon in turn begin to blow off their arrangements since it is not clear whether or not Tiffany will show up. Tiffany has created
   a. a confirmation bias.
   b. a self-fulfilling prophecy.
   c. counterfactual thinking.
   d. controlled unbelieving.

Question 2

Which of the following provides the best example of the self-fulfilling prophecy? a. A lawyer asks you to describe the last fight you were in and the jury now believes you have a pronounced history of aggressive behavior, even though that was your only fi
 
  a. A lawyer asks you to describe the last fight you were in and the jury now believes you have a pronounced history of aggressive behavior, even though that was your only fight.
  b. A person tries to bring a shy person out of her shell by acting in a very friendly manner.
  c. Due to a rumor of a stock market crash, Wall Street has a significant drop when too many people take their money out of the market.
  d. You remember that your waitress friend prefers beer to wine, but mistakenly recall that your librarian friend prefers wine to beer.



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mohan

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C




biggirl4568

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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