If a Student Rates All Her Professors' Average on All

question 78

Multiple Choice

If a student rates all her professors' average on all dimensions of performance regardless of their actual performance,she is committing which of the following perceptual errors?

• A) Self-serving bias
• B) Central tendency
• C) Contrast effect
• D) Recency effect
• E) Halo

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Definitions:

Ethnocentrism

The belief that one’s in-group is superior to all out-groups.

Cultural Relativism

The idea that something can be understood and judged only in relationship to the cultural context in which it appears.

Language

A system of communication used by a particular community or country, comprising spoken, written, or signed forms.

Patterns of Inequality

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