Four friends planned on seeing their first off-Broadway musical on a recent trip to New York. Jatana dressed in casual clothes, but when her friends came to pick her up they were all dressed in black evening clothes. Jatana quickly changed her outfit before the group left for the theater. Jatana's behavior is an example of:
a. obedience
b. cognitive dissonance
c. social interference
d. conformity
D
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Some psychologists believe that an organism's behavior is motivated by the need to achieve a state of balance in which the body functions effectively—a state called ________
a) unbalance b) acquiescence c) propinquity d) homeostasis
According to the introduction on language comprehension (Chapter 9),
a. language requires very little active processing of information; language comprehension is primarily automatic. b. language can be described in terms of a relatively small number of specific tasks. c. language is not closely related to other cognitive tasks. d. we consult our background knowledge, which is related to language, so we can understand complex ideas.
A psychologist discovers that moderate, but unpredictable, noise during a cognitively demanding task leads to a significant increase in negative evaluations of their partners by participants doing the task in cooperation with another student. Whether a similar level of unpredictable noise occurring in a college dormitory will have an adverse effect on students' evaluations of their roommates is
an issue of a. sample generalization. b. a density effect. c. an interaction. d. variable representativeness.
The ability to apply semantic organization as a memory strategy emerges in children at about the age of
a. three. b. six. c. nine. d. 12.