In One Study of Six Secondary Schools Where Inner-City Students

question 9

Multiple Choice

In one study of six secondary schools where inner-city students were removed and their scholastic performance improved,it was found that the schools helped them to advance in mainstream school settings by

• A)helping the students' parents to find higher paying employment
• B)helping the parents to become more engaged in their children's academic performance
• C)longer school days and school years
• D)a no-nonsense principal who worked closely with school administration to follow what the administration said was best for the students

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Definitions:

Attribution Theory

The view that people act as intuitive scientists when they observe other people’s behavior and infer explanations about why those people acted the way they did.

Intuitive Scientists

A theory suggesting that people often act like amateur scientists, attempting to understand and predict other people's behavior by forming hypotheses and making deductions.

Social Cognition Theory

A theory that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations, emphasizing the role of cognitive processes in understanding social interaction.

Causal Attribution

The process of identifying the cause of an event or behavior, attributing it either to internal dispositions or to external situations.