Since Charles was young, he has believed that Canadians are arrogant, smug people. He only has to find out that a person is from Canada and he draws the conclusion that that person is arrogant and smug. Charles is displaying:

a. discrimination
b. prejudice
c. group polarization
d. deindividuation


B

Psychology

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a. ?cognitive dissonance b. ?unrealistic optimism c. ?actor-observer effect d. ?the ultimate attribution error

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Ethologists emphasize ____ among individuals' development, while behavioral learning theorists emphasize ____

a. quickened speed; accuracy b. variations; consistencies c. experiential effects; biological maturation d. similarities; differences

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Which item is a primary reinforcer?

a. ?money b. ?sex c. ?grades d. ?tokens

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If a researcher found, in a correlational study, that an increase in one factor resulted in an increase of the same magnitude in another factor, the correlation, or r, would be

a. -1.0 c. 0.5 b. 0.0 d. +1.0

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