Which of the following produces cognitive dissonance?
a. Saying one thing and doing something else
b. Participating in a long, boring task
c. Having a heated argument with someone you dislike
d. Studying long hours on an important topic
a
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Dissatisfaction with the system of public mental hospitals led to the
a. development of psychotherapy techniques in the 1900s. b. "rebirth" of mental institutions in the 1960s. c. community mental health movement of the 1960s. d. managed care movement of the 1990s.
Basing the estimated probability of an event on how similar it is to the prototype of that event is termed the
a. conjunction heuristic. b. availability heuristic. c. representativeness heuristic. d. gambler's heuristic.
Why use quasi-experimental designs if they are flawed? It is because they _____
a. provide a real-world validation of experimental manipulations b. explain causality without the use of random assignment c. are the only ethical way to study some things in people d. constitute a short-cut for the application of principles to society's problems
According to the chapter Tokens Against Aggressionabout the use of a token economy in a psychiatric
hospital, What percentage of nursing staff in psychiatric hospitals report being assaulted by a patient during their careers? (a) 4% (b) 15% (c) 35% (d) 75%