When driving down the highway, Gianna could not help but
notice the young woman who seemed to be driving in a reckless manner. She immediately wondered if the woman was in an emergency or if something important was going on to make her drive like that. Gianna just made a(n) _____
a) conformity attribution.
b) dispositional attribution.
c) external attribution.
d) impression attribution.
Answer: c
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a. social exchange b. self-disclosure c. familiarity d. social comparison
In the ecological framework of coping in Chapter 8, major life events, life transitions, daily hassles, and disasters, are termed:
a. distal personal factors. b. distal contextual factors. c. stress reactions. d. proximal stressors.
Pavlov's research on digestion demonstrated
a. the utility of electric shock as a stimulus. b. that animals can learn to respond to a previously neutral stimulus. c. that hunger is a more powerful drive than thirst. d. that digestion begins in the mouth when the food is mixed with saliva. e. the power of experimental ablation in research.
The two basic conditions of the M’Naghten rule are (1) the presence of a mental disorder and (2) ______.
a. the act was the product of the mental disorder b. the person was not able to control themselves c. the lack of comprehension of the wrongfulness of the act at the time of the act d. the lack of comprehension of the wrongfulness of the act at the time of the trial