When half of his class earned D's and F's on the midterm
exam, Professor Bush came back to the next class and delivered a stern lecture about their effort. He admonished the class for failing to meet their obligations, for being lazy, and for not taking their studies seriously. These attributions, which were all _____ attributions, did not really give any consideration to the fact that the students may have had other reasons for failing the exam that were beyond their immediate control.
A) cooperative B) dispositional
C) accusatory D) situational
B
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"About seven" is a famous estimate for:
a. the number of memory stores in the human brain. b. the capacity of long-term memory. c. the number of minutes information can stay in short-term memory without rehearsal. d. the capacity of short-term memory span.
In the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory, the participants were to report
A) one of three lines of letters as indicated by the sound of a tone immediately presented after the letters had disappeared. B) only one or two of the letters in the cued line. C) the first letter of each line only. D) the middle letter of each line.