Roles contribute to the streamlining of everyday interactions because they
a. permit us to make fundamental attributions in social situations.
b. allow us to anticipate the actions of others.
c. frequently put us in positions of indecision about appropriate behavior.
d. can be learned with relatively little effort.
ANSWER: b
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Wells and Petty (1980) videotaped students as they listened to a speech. The results of this study indicated that
a. students revealed the intensity, but not the direction, of their attitudes through their body language. b. students' self-reported attitudes did not agree with their observed attitudes. c. students signaled their attitudes by nodding or shaking their heads. d. horizontal head movements indicate agreement, whereas vertical head movements indicate disagreement.
Recall that habituation refers to the decrease of the UR with repeated exposure to the US by itself. The movement-ratio results and the CS-response-strength results from Stage 1 in Exercise 21 suggest that the US pre-exposure effect is not the result of habituation because
a. there were only 10 presentations of the US. b. although CS response strength remained at zero, the movement ratio was occasionally greater than zero. c. although the movement ratio remained at zero, the CS response strength rose above zero. d. the non-zero levels of both measures indicated that background conditioning had taken place.
How did positive psychology manifest itself during the past in various societies?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is true?
a. There are more doctoral-level counseling psychologists than doctoral-level clinical psychologists. b. There are more accredited doctoral programs in counseling psychology than in clinical psychology. c. It is more likely for a clinical program, as opposed to a counseling program, to be housed in a psychology department. d. All of the above are true.