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geodog55 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

When people are asked to judge why males and females have been successful on a task, they are likely to say that

a. males have been successful because of good luck, whereas females have been successful because of high ability.
b. both males and females have been successful because of a combination of ability and hard work.
c. males have been successful because they cheated, whereas females have been successful because the task was easy.
d. males have been successful because of high ability, whereas females have been successful because they tried hard.

Question 2

According to the research on people's judgments about men and women,

a. people rarely judge men and women differently in the current era.
b. people now assume that women political candidates are actually more competent than male candidates in areas such as national security and the economy.
c. people are most likely to use stereotypes if they are busy working on another task at the same time.
d. people usually favor a male candidate, even when it is clear that a woman is well-qualified for a job.