Bystanders frequently fail to respond to an emergency because no one else is responding. We tend to rely on what others say and do when we are not sure of the nature of the situation or of what behaviors to engage in. This is known as ________
A) diffusion of responsibility
B) the altruistic personality effect
C) pluralistic ignorance
D) selective altruism
E) the implicit bystander effect
Answer: C
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According to Main and Hesse (1998), why do parents that are classified as
Unresolved/Disorganized on the Adult Attachment Interview have infants that are rated as disorganized in the Strange Situation? A) The parents often engage in bizarre, frightening/frightened behavior, which creates a state of alarm in their infants. B) The fact that the parents often score low on parent sensitivity assessments. C) Because they are less intelligent than secure people. D) Because they often ignore their infants and do not take care of them.
According to the text, about what percent of U. S. women age 16 and older were in the labor force in 2009?
a. 38% b. 59% c. 78% d. 92%
College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only halfhearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to ________.
a. learned helplessness b. contingency blocking c. latent learning d. response generalization
When people believe that the probability of two combined events is higher than the probability of either event alone, they are making the ________ error
FIll in the blank with correct word.