Suppose that Mr. Yipol gives 100 students a reading exam. He then selects the five students with the highest scores for a special reading program. At the end of the reading program, he administers the same reading exam again. To Mr. Yipol's astonishment, though, the students actually perform worse this time. While it might well be the case that the reading program actually negatively impacted the
students' reading ability, Mr. Yipol would be wise to consider that the decrease could be due to ____.
a. false consensus
b. false uniqueness
c. statistical regression
d. illusion of control
C
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A) self-esteem. B) self-fulfilling prophecies. C) logical thought. D) ability grouping.
We are likely to find that many of the children with autistic disorder
a. are girls. b. also suffer from depression, tic disorders, and other forms of psychopathology. c. come from poverty-stricken environments. d. were identified as having the disorder before they were 3 years old.