Recall That Kubitscheck and Halliman (1998)studied the Influence of Tracking

question 148

Multiple Choice

Recall that Kubitscheck and Halliman (1998) studied the influence of tracking (grouping students by academic ability) on friendship formation.They discovered that tracking fostered ____,which in turn increased the ____ of students "tracked" together.

• A)communication; equity
• B)propinquity; similarity
• C)reciprocal liking; propinquity
• D)social exchange; reciprocal liking

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Definitions:

Ease of Retrieval Effect

A psychological phenomenon where the ease with which information can be retrieved from memory influences judgments of its frequency or importance.

Representative Heuristic

A mental shortcut used in decision-making, where the likelihood of an event is estimated based on how similar it is to the stereotype of the event.

Correspondent Inference

The process by which observers infer the stable dispositions of others from their observed behavior, particularly when the actions are non-common or unexpected.

Representativeness Heuristic

The tendency to overestimate the likelihood that a target is part of a category if the person has features that seem representative of that category.