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geoffrey · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Chris, a high school student, is looking up the profiles of various colleges to make a decision about which one he wants to attend. Being a confident person, he believes that he will do well at a prestigious university. His belief in his success is called _____ by social cognitive theorists.

A) defense mechanism
B) self-efficacy expectations
C) modeling
D) existentialism

Question 2

A study on cognitive abilities compared data collected simultaneously from people of different ages. A major confounding variable in this type of study is ____.

a. the typically high attrition rate
b. the Hawthorne effect
c. that there is no control group
d. that experiential differences might account for IQ score differences