The author of Chapter 16 ("Classroom") advises that if your instructor introduces evidence to support a position about an issue that conflicts with your own views on the issue,you should try to think of reasons why the position supported by the instructor might be correct and reasons why your position might be wrong.This advice is aimed,in particular,at minimizing problems associated with ______.

A) the fundamental attribution error
B) social categorization
C) the self-serving bias
D) belief perseverance

Which set of attributions best characterizes the car driver optimist who has just gotten into an accident with his car sliding into a ditch?

A) internal, stable, global
B) internal, unstable, global
C) external, unstable, specific
D) external, stable, specific

A disruption in circadian rhythms that afflicts many college students is __________

A) advanced sleep phase syndrome.
B) delayed sleep phase syndrome.
C) advanced waking phase syndrome.
D) delayed waking phase syndrome.