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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

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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


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
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