The idea that impressions are based on a perceiver's disposition to form certain impressions and a weighted average of the target person's characteristics is most consistent with

a. correspondent inference theory.
b. cognitive heuristics.
c. the actor-observer effect.
d. information integration theory.


d

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The researcher credited with applying behaviorist principles to elicit fear in a young child, "little Albert," was

A) Jones. B) Pavlov. C) Watson. D) Bandura. E) Skinner.

Psychology

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a. a virus b. a bacterium c. a prion d. an abnormal protein formation in the blood

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