Group members who undergo severe initiations in order to join often find they are ___ than members of groups that have an open-membership policy

Which of the following is true of collectivists?

A) They are more likely to conform to group judgments. B) They are unable to resist personal temptations to do their duty. C) They do not identify themselves in terms of their families or gender. D) They define themselves in terms of their personal identities.

We can use the standard normal curve as our model for

a. perfectly normal distributions only. b. perfectly normal distributions only, when transformed to z-scores. c. any approximately normal distribution, when transformed to z-scores. d. any approximately normal distribution, when transformed to percentiles.

An experimenter compared the reaction times of participants to a red light and to a yellow light and found that reaction time was faster for the yellow light. However, it was also discovered that the yellow light was perceived by the participants as being brighter than the red light. In this experiment,

a. the color of the light is confounded with reaction time. b. the color of the light is confounded with the perceived intensity of the light. c. the red light is confounded with the yellow light. d. there are no confounds.

Many diseases and half of all deaths in North America can be traced to

a. accidents. b. unhealthy behaviors. c. infectious diseases. d. poor prenatal care.