Santiago is a Mexican student and Pierre is an Egyptian student in an exchange program. Both are part of a team competing in an international quiz competition, and they prepare very hard and cooperate with each other despite their cultural differences. This scenario most likely exemplifies the importance of ________ in bringing interracial harmony.
A. implicit self-esteem
B. the jigsaw technique
C. pluralistic ignorance
D. a superordinate goal
Answer: D
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a. clinical judgment tests. b. inventories. c. objective tests. d. projective tests.
Which of the following statements about children with very low working-memory scores is true?
A) About 30 percent of children have very low working-memory scores. B) They can benefit from direct training with working memory tasks. C) Children from economically advantaged families are likely to score low on working-memory tasks. D) The majority of children with low working-memory scores improve without intervention.
According to Baltes and his colleagues, the most successful adaptation to declining physical and cognitive abilities in late adulthood involves ____ to promote cognitive functioning
a. habituation and dishabituation to create equilibrium (HDE) b. cognitive reserve to improve IQ scores (CRI) c. mental images and language to improve cognitive functioning (MILCF) d. selective optimization with compensation (SOC)
Participants primed with hostility were more likely to rate an ambiguous person as hostile, but no differently on other evaluative terms
Indicate whether the statement is true or false