The notion that people seek to reduce anxiety when their cognitions and behaviors do not
correspond is called
a. elaboration likelihood.
b. the fundamental attribution error.
c. attribution.
d. cognitive dissonance.
e. the false consensus effect.
d. cognitive dissonance.
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Research has found that when parents use a(n) ____ style to help their children expand on their descriptions of events, they will have earlier memories of childhood when they reach adolescence
a. measured b. formal c. idiomatic d. conversational
According to the textbook, Alan Alda refused to eat a hard-boiled egg because Elizabeth Loftus suggested to him that his answers to a questionnaire revealed that he must have gotten sick after eating hard-boiled eggs at some time in his life. His refusal illustrates
a. how hypnosis can aid in the recovery of long-forgotten memories. b. how easy it is to implant false memories. c. how classical conditioning produces taste aversions. d. the difference between repression and suppression regarding memory loss.
A major problem with the animal research performed by Romanes was that it:?
a. ?could not be replicated b. ?was not related to any theory c. ?had no use “in real life” and was of no interest outside the laboratory d. ?depended on anecdotal evidence and was characterized by anthropomorphizing
Hannah, 12, is in 6th grade and is taller than most of the boys in her class but has not yet had her first period. Hannah would be considered in _____ adolescence
A) early B) middle C) late D) None of the above.