The first section in Chapter 14 focused on attitudes toward older women. This section included the following quotation: "The way you age depends on where you live.". This quotation suggests that
a. there is no evidence for the double standard of aging.
b. in some cultures, a woman's power in a family may increase as she grow older; in other cultures, her power may decrease.
c. if a culture has negative attitudes toward elderly people, young people will compensate by treating the elderly people respectfully.
d. biological factors are more important than social factors.
B
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a. similarity of attitudes on interpersonal attraction. b. immigration patterns on stock market activity. c. distraction of attention to a visual display. d. narcotic substances on neurotransmitter activity in the brain.
What problem do matched samples and matched pairs solve?
A. demand characteristic problem B. third variable problem C. poor operational definition problem D. random sampling problem E. normal distribution problem
People often publicly conform because of normative social influence.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Superior memory for information that was produced by a person (rather than simply read or heard) benefits from __________
a. encoding specificity b. the generation effect c. emotion-induced memory d. recognition enhancement