A _______________ Error Occurs When a Rater Avoids Using High

question 77

Multiple Choice

A _______________ error occurs when a rater avoids using high or low ratings and assigns average ratings.

• A) recency-of-events
• B) contrast
• C) central tendency
• D) personal bias

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Definitions:

Split Brain

A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them.

Conscious Awareness

The state of being fully alert and aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, and environment.

Information Processing

A cognitive approach that likens the mind to a computer, focusing on how information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

Cerebral Hemisphere

One of the two halves of the brain (left or right) in vertebrates, responsible for control over the opposite side of the body and different functions such as language and logic (left hemisphere) or spatial and creative tasks (right hemisphere).