"I Don't Put My Best Effort Forward

question 87

Multiple Choice

"I don't put my best effort forward.If I do and fail,I'll find out that I'm not smart enough to succeed." Sounds like this student engages in:

• A) image defense
• B) overjustification effect
• C) attribution bias
• D) self-handicapping

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Definitions:

P < .05

A statistical notation indicating that the probability of the observed results occurring by chance is less than 5%.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon, often used to determine the practical significance of research findings.

Cohen

Refers to statistical measures developed by Jacob Cohen to quantify the effect size or the strength of an observed phenomenon, such as Cohen's d.

Cohen's D

A gauge for quantifying the size of impact by showing the normalized discrepancy between two mean values.