Question

Imagine your instructor dresses rather sloppily and shows up to class with untamed hair and glasses that were popular in the 1960s. Consequently, you spend most of class playing on your phone because you assume your instructor is as unintelligent and unprepared as they are unattractive. This example demonstrates _______?

Answer 1

Answer:

Horn effect

Explanation:

Horn effect refers to a situation when we developed a negative bias to an individual as a whole simply because that individual have one negative traits that we don't like.

From the example above, it mentioned that we assume the instructor is unintelligent and unprepared simply because of the way he/she looks even though there is no correlation between attractiveness and intelligence at all.