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Reece is talking with her friends about what they are likely to experience in their first year of college. Although her health and academic abilities are normal, Reece thinks that she is more likely to get good grades and less likely to get the flu than the average college student. This is an example of ____.
 
  a. social referencing
  b. unrealistic optimism
  c. the actor-observer effect
  d. a self-serving bias

Question 2

Terrance, a Canadian, is watching the Olympics. Whenever his country wins an event, Terrance boasts about the skills and talents of the Canadian athletes. Whenever another country wins an event, he claims that the athletes of that country got lucky. Terrance is demonstrating ____.
 
  a. the actor-observer effect
  b. how people tend to attribute the behaviors of ingroups and outgroups differently
  c. an illusory correlation between the teams skills and their nationality
  d. how reference groups can be compared based on schemas



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Answer to Question 1

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b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
b



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