In Milgram’s experiments, which of the following did NOT reduce obedience?
A. giving the teacher the orders by phone
B. placing the teacher and learner face to face
C. telling the teacher that the learner had a heart condition
D. conducting the experiment off campus
Ans: B. placing the teacher and learner face to face
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A. unconditioned stimulus B. conditioned stimulus C. unconditioned response D. conditioned response
Chapter 10 discussed a study by Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs in which two people try to communicate about the order in which various geometric figures are to be arranged. The research showed that
a. people could not accomplish this task unless they were close friends. b. people soon developed a shorthand communication system. c. people typically increased their hand gestures at the same time that they decreased their verbal output. d. people seem to remain fairly stable across trials in terms of the number of turns required to agree upon a figure.
Every night Donna asks Larry how his day went. She figures he must hate his job because he does nothing but complain about terrible things that happened during the day. When she attends an office party with him, Donna is surprised to find that Larry's coworkers are pleasant and fun and that Larry seems to enjoy what he does. The fact that Larry remembers the negative aspects of his job more than the positive ones is an example of:
A. framing B. the representativeness heuristic C. the availability heuristic D. brainstorming
Cognitive therapy tends to focus on __________ whereas behavior therapy focuses on __________
a. cognitive distortions; problematic behaviors b. flooding; challenging beliefs c. the conscious; the unconscious d. the unconscious; the conscious