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Recall that Kelley (1950) told some students that a guest instructor was a warm person and others that a guest instructor was a cold person.
 
  When the instructor behaved in an arrogant way, he was rated as immodest, no matter what students were told about him at the outset. These findings suggest that
   a. in tense situations, we seldom rely on our schemas.
   b. schemas change according to the situation they are applied in.
   c. when behaviors are clear, we rely less on our schemas.
   d. schemas are specific to the situation in which we find ourselves.

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Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest instructor was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person.
 
  Students who were told that the guest instructor was a warm person evaluated him more positively and participated more in class discussion than did students who were told that he was cold. These results support the idea that schemas are
 
   a. universal.
   b. impossible to modify.
   c. especially influential when we encounter ambiguous information.
   d. different, depending on the information to which we are exposed.



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Answer: D

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Answer: C





 

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