Researchers Darley and Gross (1983) showed different groups of people identical videotape footage of "Hannah," a girl who was said to come either from an impoverished background or from a wealthy background. They found that people stereotyped the girl as intellectually inferior when they were led to believe that she came from an impoverished background. However, this stereotype emerged only when
participants saw footage of Hannah performing ambiguously on an oral exam. This finding is best explained by the concept of ____.
a. stigma by association
b. the confirmation bias
c. the fundamental attribution error
d. scapegoat theory
B
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Research on flashbulb memories indicates that __________.
A. decay does not occur for these memories B. interference does not occur for these memories C. these memories are often the result of reconstruction, rather than true memories D. they are largely susceptible to the same errors as other types of memory
Priming occurs when presentation of one stimulus
A. disrupts the processing of another stimulus. B. acts as a cue that tells the participant when his or her response was correct. C. facilitates the response to another stimulus that usually follows closely in time. D. relates to a prototype in a way that is unrelated to associated exemplars.
Erikson's industry vs. inferiority stage corresponds to which of Freud's stages?
A) Oral B) Anal C) Phallic D) Latency
William is a 68-year-old man who has received a diagnosis from his doctor that he has brain cancer and has only several months to live
At first he didn't believe it, but after he got a second opinion that validated the first, he became furious with his doctors, family, and even strangers. According to Kübler-Ross, which stage of death and dying is William exhibiting? a) 1st stage b) 2nd stage c) 3rd stage d) 4th stage