In survey research, the problem of participants providing responses that they think are acceptable instead of honest responses is called
A) social desirability.
B) denial.
C) contradiction.
D) volunteer bias.
A
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Which of the following involves collective harm occurring as a result of many individuals unintentionally acting against the group interest?
a. collective compromise b. a social dilemma c. cognitive dissonance d. selective misperception
____ can be defined as ceasing to feel angry toward, and ceasing to seek retribution against, someone who has wronged you
a. Empathy-altruism b. Negative state relief c. Forgiveness d. Shame
In comparison to workers in Western European countries, U.S. workers
a. have a more powerful labor union structure. b. work 250 hours longer per year. c. work fewer hours. d. are more cooperative.
A person with anterograde amnesia
a. has difficulty forming memories of things that happened after the brain damage. b. has difficulty on implicit memory tasks, rather than explicit memory tasks. c. has relatively weak long-term memory, compared to working memory. d. is likely to retain expertise in one specific area of knowledge.