Regarding coercion, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Coercion involves bending to the requests of a person who has little or no authority or form of social power.
b. Through various types of brainwashing techniques, the Chinese during the Korean War were able to coerce some of the American prisoners to sign false confessions.
c. Coercion is the most extreme form of social influence.
d. Cult conversion is an example of coercion.
A
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In the context of McCrae and Costa's Five-Factor Model, the characteristic traits of the factor of openness is:
a. careful, reliable, hardworking, and organized. c. worried, insecure, nervous, and highly strung. b. sociable, talkative, fun-loving, and affectionate. d. original, independent, creative, and daring.
Leibniz’s term for awareness was:
a. petites perceptions. b. limen. c. apperception. d. epiphenomenon.
Which of the following statements is least accurate?
a. Human beings are, by nature, a social species. b. Baumeister and Leary maintain that the need to belong causes people to seek out and maintain relationships with others. c. People sometimes find that they are more creative when isolated from others. d. Most people report that they would prefer to live alone rather than with other people.
As the muscles in your body relax during Stage 1 sleep, the reflex muscle contraction that may happen is called
a. an autonomic cramp. b. a hypnic jerk. c. the restless leg syndrome. d. the hypnogogic image syndrome.