Unlike Intelligence Scores,achievement Scores Are NOT

question 68

Multiple Choice

Unlike intelligence scores,achievement scores are NOT

• A)predictive of school performance.
• B)correlated with self-discipline.
• C)predictive of occupational success.
• D)distributed in the pattern of a bell-shaped curve.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance

The mental discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underemphasizing the role of situational factors.

Defensive Attribution

A psychological process by which individuals tend to ascribe greater blame to the victims of misfortune for their own victimization when they feel threatened by the likelihood of a similar event happening to them.

Observational Learning

A learning process through which behaviors, attitudes, or skills are acquired by watching and imitating the actions of others.