Even though she knows that most people take much longer than they anticipate in finishing their dissertations (sometimes even years longer), Tyra is certain that she will be able to conduct her dissertation research, write up her dissertation, and defend it to her dissertation committee, all within nine months. She is sure that if she works hard she will be able to successfully finish on
schedule. Tyra appears to be ____.
a. subject to the planning fallacy
b. showing evidence of the Zeigarnik effect
c. subject to the omission bias
d. an entity theorist
A
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a. they are low in self-efficacy. b. they are low in intrinsic motivation. c. they are high in intrinsic motivation d. they are high in extrinsic motivation.
In the 1970s, a 13-year-old girl was found locked up in a room, strapped to a potty chair. Because she had grown up in a world without human speech, researchers studied "Genie's" ability to acquire words, grammar, and pronunciation. This type of research is called ________________________ because a lot of data were gathered about a single case.
a) a case study b) a representative sample c) a single-blind study d) a naturalistic observation