Research suggests that learning about the bystander effect will have what effect on people's willingness to help?
a. People's helping behavior is not impacted by learning about the bystander effect.
b. People show decreased helping in group situations.
c. People show psychological reactance and therefore, decreased helping in group situations.
d. People show increased helping in group situations.
Answer: D
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In family studies, researchers assess hereditary influence by
a. comparing members of one family to unrelated individuals to see how much they resemble one another on specific traits. b. comparing blood relatives to see how much they resemble one another on specific traits. c. comparing the resemblance of adopted children to both their biological and adoptive parents on specific traits. d. comparing the resemblance of identical and fraternal twins on specific traits.
Forty-year-old Chester has just begun to show symptoms indicating a deterioration of his nervous system. Chester most likely has
a. Klinefelter syndrome. b. Cystic fibrosis. c. Turner syndrome. d. Huntington's disease.
Which of the following is a defining characteristic of biologically oriented psychologists?
A) They believe that self-awareness, experience, and choice permit us to invent ourselves and our ways of relating to the world as we progress through life. B) They study the influences of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status on behavior and mental processes. C) They investigate the ways we perceive and mentally represent the world, remember the past, plan for the future, solve problems, form judgments, make decisions, and use language. D) They study the role of heredity in behavior and mental processes such as psychological disorders, criminal behavior, and thinking.
Planning for one's future is characteristic of ____ thinking
a. concrete c. formal operational b. egocentric d. conventional