Suppose That Bobbie Gets Caught Cheating on a Test and Is

question 39

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Bobbie gets caught cheating on a test and is put on probation. Now that Bobbie, who is an "A" student and has always been considered smart by her friends, has been formally labeled as a "cheater," her friends start questioning her intellectual abilities. Moreover, they talk among themselves and agree that Bobbie's high GPA is probably the result of chronic cheating. Bobbie's friends have engaged in:

• A)character projection
• B)formal rejection
• C)identity reconstruction
• D)retrospective labeling
• E)secondary attribution

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