Professor Marcus Believes That Student Athletes Are Lazy and Academically

question 56

Multiple Choice

Professor Marcus believes that student athletes are lazy and academically incompetent. Every time she has an athlete in one of her classes who is a poor student she takes note of and remembers it. Every time she has an athlete in her class who is an excellent student she ignores it. This is a mechanism by which Professor Marcus _____ her stereotype of student athletes.

• A) justifies
• B) maintains
• C) makes good use of
• D) makes adjustments to

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