Once We Categorise Someone as a High Performer, We Focus

question 86

Multiple Choice

Once we categorise someone as a high performer, we focus more on (and better remember) information related to his or her __________ and disregard more of the information reflecting his or her __________.

• A) low performance, high performance
• B) high performance, low performance
• C) personality, appearance
• D) appearance, personality
• E) appearance, high performance

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Definitions:

Clarification

The process of making a statement or situation less confused and more clearly comprehensible.

Conditioned Response

A response that is learned when a neutral stimulus is regularly presented together with a stimulus that naturally triggers a reaction, transforming the neutral stimulus into a conditioned one.

Conditioned Stimulus

A formerly neutral signal that, through linkage with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually elicits a conditioned reaction.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus, eliciting a conditioned response.