Which of the following is TRUE of self-handicapping behavior?
A) People engage in self-handicapping behavior when they are not motivated to succeed.
B) People engage in self-handicapping behavior when they doubt that previous achievements accurately reflect their personal abilities and efforts.
C) People engage in self-handicapping behavior when they are too confident of their future success.
D) People with high self-esteem are not likely to engage in self-handicapping behavior.
Answer: B
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According to your authors, laboratory research generalizes
A) poorly from college undergraduates to other groups of people in other settings. B) poorly from experimental designs in the laboratory but well from correlational or naturalistic observation designs. C) well from laboratory settings to the real world, but only when undergraduates are not used as participants. D) well from laboratory settings to the real world.
What is the purpose of an institutional review board?
A) To help protect research participants from abuse B) To hinder the research process by placing unnecessary hurdles in the way of researchers C) To help protect the university from lawsuits from unhappy research participants D) To encourage the use of deception in medical and psychological research with humans