Engaging in brief, superficial social contacts, ignoring nonessential events, and adopting a cold, callous, unfriendly expression may help city dwellers to
a. reduce territorial behavior.
b. prevent learned helplessness.
c. reduce attentional overload.
d. maintain self-esteem.
ANSWER: c
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_____ is the view that learning occurs when stimuli provide information about the likelihood of the occurrence of other stimuli
A) Consistency paradox B) Contact hypothesis C) Conflict theory D) Contingency theory
When parents belittle, scream at, or physically abuse their children, the parents, themselves, become which of the following for fear and withdrawal?
a. conditioned stimuli b. conditioned responses c. unconditioned stimuli d. unconditioned responses
If you were asked to describe the steps you go through in backing your car out of the driveway, you would most likely retrieve this implicit memory by moving your head, hands, and feet with these movements providing cues for memory retrieval through a process known as _________
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Individuals with low self-confidence are:
a) more susceptible to informational influence b) more susceptible to normative influence c) less susceptible to informational influence d) less susceptible to normative influence