According to the article Spare the Rod, about punishment and aggression, in an unusual finding on the island of St Helena:
(a) girls were more aggressive than boys
(b) television did not seem to increase violence
(c) younger children learned aggression from older children
(d) punishment was found to decrease levels of aggression
B
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a. ?peak experience b. ?social interest c. ?freshness of appreciation d. ?hierarchy of needs e. ?human identification
At the gym, you run into Jake. Jake is unshaven and is wearing ragged clothes and no-name tennis shoes and he is also very sweaty. He asks you if you want to play some basketball. You think that Jake is a loser and say no. This best illustrates:
a. social cognition b. situational attribution c. how groupthink influences individual behavior d. the influence of person perception on behavior
A comparison of how people wrote computer programs suggested that planning is most likely to be used by a person with
a. no knowledge of the specific task. b. partial knowledge of the task. c. a detailed knowledge of the correct solution. d. All three should show equivalent amounts of planning.
The correlation between individual scores on a predictor variable and their subsequent performance on some criterion, such as job performance, is known as ________
a. intrinsic coherency b. predictive validity c. predictive reliability d. a meta-analysis