An important step in the development of decision making is learning to inhibit
A) advice from people with less experience.
B) the first impulses one has about how to behave in a given situation.
C) the tendency to consider each option carefully.
D) the preference for choices which offer the most benefit to others.
B) the first impulses one has about how to behave in a given situation. Decision making involves inhibiting the first impulses one has about how to behave in a given situation, and knowing whether you know enough about the situation to trust your first instinct.
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Solomon Asch's classic experiment (in which subjects judged a "standard" line and "comparison" lines) showed that
a. subjects yielded to group pressure in only ten percent of the critical test trials. b. subjects were not nervous or upset about making judgments different from the group. c. 75 percent of the subjects yielded to group pressure at least once. d. when tested alone only five percent of the subjects made errors of judgment.
In Watson's attempt to produce a phobia in Albert B., what were the conditioned stimulus and conditioned response?
a. The conditioned stimulus was a rat and the conditioned response was a loud noise. b. The conditioned stimulus was a loud noise and the conditioned response was a rat. c. The conditioned stimulus was a rat and the conditioned response was fear d. The conditioned stimulus was a loud noise and the conditioned response was fear.
The so-called bad apple effect refers to the idea that ____
a. at least one person in every social group tends to loaf b. one social loafer can cause others to loaf as well c. people are more prone to copy negative behaviors than positive behaviors d. it is not always easy to tell at a distance who is loafing and who is not
If a moderately liberal person watches a lot of liberal news media television and listens to liberal news radio programs, her viewpoints will probably become more liberal
Indicate whether the statement is true or false