Joseph said that several years ago in a long food line in the Soviet Union, an elderly woman fell to the ground and died of a heart attack. No one helped her. He added that this lack of helping is probably due to a social psychological concept called "diffusion of responsibility." Joseph is fulfilling which goal of psychology?
A. to explain behavior
B. to predict behavior
C. to control behavior
D. to influence behavior
Answer: A
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Of the choices given below, a z score is most affected by the:
a. median. b. mode. c. standard deviation. d. range.
Jason is an infant whose parents speak English in the home. When his parents are at work, Jason stays in a family day care home where all the employees speak only Spanish. Jason is experiencing
a. multilingualism. b. a confirmation of the critical period hypothesis. c. sequential bilingualism. d. simultaneous bilingualism.
An elementary school teacher practically ends classroom discipline problems by giving students "chances" in a lottery to be held at the end of the week for some small toy. The chances are given for completing assignments, paying attention, and so forth. The chances are considered
a. tokens. b. stimulus controls. c. conditioned stimuli. d. unconditioned stimuli.
Which of the following accurately describes Bruner's representational systems?
a. The order of development is motor, symbolic, and enactive. b. Each representational system is distinct, sequential, and exclusively descriptive of an individual at that stage. c. Though two of the representational systems develop and are utilized in childhood, the third does not appear until the adult years. d. As each representational system is acquired, it is added to and used alongside those that preceded it.