The members of Ike's fraternity think spending the entire activity fund for the cultural fest is reasonable. Ike does not think this is a good idea but he decides to keep quiet rather than offend his fraternity brothers and risk being ridiculed
This scenario illustrates a symptom of:
a. groupthink.
b. deindividuation.
c. the diffusion of responsibility.
d. the self-serving bias.
a
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Parents who disguise hostility toward their children by becoming overly protective of them are very likely using the defense mechanism of
A.
B.
C.
D.
Damage to the receptors for peripheral vision could be expected to create
a. presbyopia. b. tunnel vision. c. myopia. d. color blindness.
In an experiment by Pavlov, dogs were required to make finer and finer discriminations between circles and ellipses. When the dogs could no longer reliably discriminate, they:
a. behaved randomly b. became passive and depressed c. became vicious and aggressive d. developed "neurotic" behavior
The technique in which participants are asked to make up a story based on ambiguous pictures is called:
a. locus of control test b. thematic apperception test c. sensation seeking scale d. predictive hypothesis testing