On the First Day of Class, Your Teacher Walked in and Told

question 6

Multiple Choice

On the first day of class, your teacher walked in and told everyone to look to the left and to the right at the people sitting next to them, because at the end of the semester only one of them would still be in the class with a passing grade. The teacher stated a

• A) self-serving bias.
• B) fundamental attribution bias.
• C) self-fulfilling prophecy.
• D) race/ethnicity stereotype.
• E) recency effect.

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Definitions:

Discrimination

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Norris-LaGuardia Act

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Injunctions

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