The teacher assigns you to work with the star football player for a group project.Because most athletes you know are not very smart and not interested in school,you expect to do all the work.You are pleasantly surprised to discover that your partner is extremely intelligent and very diligent.You believe that you got lucky and suspect that your partner is unlike most other athletes.The fact that your schema for the academic competence of athletes has not changed even in the face of disconfirming evidence illustrates what effect?

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The perseverance effect is observed when a particular belief or schema persists despite disconfirming evidence. In this case, the student's belief that most athletes are not intelligent and not interested in school has persisted despite evidence to the contrary, which is the intelligent and diligent partner assigned for the group project.

The Teacher Assigns You to Work with the Star Football