Joyce Finds That the Members of the Project Team to Which

question 73

Multiple Choice

Joyce finds that the members of the project team to which she has been assigned in her management class are all athletes on the college's football and basketball teams.She immediately considers dropping the class because she thinks her experience with that team will be negative.Joyce is likely to be reacting to a

• A) negativity bias.
• B) stereotype.
• C) self-serving bias.
• D) semantic memory.
• E) fundamental attribution bias.

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