According to the Authors of Your Text, One Major Problem

question 86

Multiple Choice

According to the authors of your text, one major problem with preparing excuses in advance of possible failure is that __________.

• A) we may come to believe those excuses and exert less effort to succeed
• B) others may believe our excuses and make us the object of pity
• C) an excess of excuses can lead to negative attributions of irresponsibility
• D) when people believe our excuses, we overestimate our abilities

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Definitions:

Prejudice

An opinion or judgment formed in advance about an individual or object without logical grounds or firsthand experience.

Discrimination

Unfair or prejudiced treatment of individuals based on their characteristics, such as race, age, sex, or sexual orientation.

Stereotyping

The act of assigning a fixed set of characteristics to members of a particular group, often oversimplifying individual differences and promoting generalizations.

Robber's Cave Experiment

A study on intergroup conflict and cooperation conducted in 1954 by social psychologist Muzafer Sherif, highlighting the ease of inducing conflict and the effectiveness of superseding goals in reducing it.