The textbook describes an experiment conducted by Bargh and Pietromonaco (1982) in which participants viewed a list composed mainly of hostile words or a list composed mainly of nonhostile words. Consistent with the argument that ______________ stimuli influence schemas, results showed that those exposed to the hostile list ________________.
a. subliminal; subsequently rated a target person more negatively.
b. consciously experienced; were friendlier during a subsequent conversation.
c. subliminal; remembered fewer hostile words on a memory test.
d. consciously experienced; enjoyed the experiment to a greater degree
a. subliminal; subsequently rated a target person more negatively.
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Your textbook discussed information regarding parents' preferences about the sex of their children, outside North America. This information suggested that
a. in some parts of Asia, parents now prefer to have girls, because the "bride prices" are now quite high. b. surprisingly, parents in other parts of the world are now more likely than North Americans to state that they have no gender preferences. c. the sex preferences around the world are actually fairly similar, with the majority preferring to have girls. d. in China, the rate of selective abortion is so high that many Chinese men will not be able to find a woman to marry.
Approximately how many synapses exist in the average human brain?
A. 1,00,000 B. 1 million C. 10 billion D. 100 trillion
College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half-hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to __________.
A. learned helplessness B. contingency blocking C. latent learning D. response generalization
You have back-to-back classes. You are finding that you can recall information from the second class fine but have difficult recalling information from the first class. You may be experiencing _________________
a. misinformation c. proactive interference b. retroactive interference d. suppression