Social norming is a strategy developed to counteract
a. students' misperceptions about how much others drink.
b. the troubling persistence of conforming to reality.
c. one's tendency to label someone in every group.
d. a resistance to change for the better.
a
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All of the following were previously classified as pervasive developmental disorders except.
a. childhood disintegrative disorder b. Rett's disorder c. autistic disorder d. specific learning disorder
Molly hears that addiction may be due to changes in brain patterns and activity as a result of repeated drug use. When she asks her professor why this is so, he cites research which states that ____
a. what she has heard is only a myth, and has no basis in fact b. only individuals with familial alcoholism and drug addiction are likely to show these changes in brain patterns c. the chronic flooding of dopamine from drug use eventually results in compulsive drug-seeking behavior d. the research is merely correlational and no one is certain why this happens
Thorndike developed the Law of Effect by studying:
A. the saliva of dogs B. how a cat learns to escape from a puzzle box C. how a rat learns to press a lever D. how to train a bear to hold a stuffed animal
"Protective privilege ends where public peril begins" summarizes ____
a. the duty-to-warn principle b. the concept of mainstreaming c. Thomas Szasz's position on patients' rights d. the American Law Institute standard for the insanity defense