Sally's adolescent classmates call her and the other members of Scholastic Honor Society "nerds," meaning she is part of a __________.

A. peer group
B. crowd
C. clique
D. cohort


Answer: B

Psychology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Throughout his elementary and high school years, Charlie got away with copying his test answers from classmates. Because the college's test proctors are very observant, Charlie spends as many hours devising new ways to cheat as it would take him to study and perform well in an honest fashion. Charlie's strategy for passing tests illustrates the consequences of:

a. functional fixedness. b. a mental set. c. confirmation bias. d. the availability heuristic. e. the framing effect.

Psychology

The total perceptual experience that occurs during eating, which combines taste and olfaction, but also somatosensory experience and visual experience, is known as ______.

A. gustation B. gluco-corticoid regeneration C. tastant aversion D. flavor

Psychology

A researcher conducts a study about depression in which experimental subjects are randomly assigned to participate in 6 weeks of yoga lessons or assigned to a waitlist control condition. The researcher thinks that yoga increases well-being, thus decreasing symptoms of depression. This idea is called a(n):

a. constant. b. dependent variable. c. theory. d. hypothesis.

Psychology