As part of a tenth-grade "Social Living" course, a teacher has a guest speaker come to his classroom to talk about the dangers of drug use. The guest speaker is a former drug dealer and hardcore drug user, who became involved in crime as a result of his connection to drugs, spent many years in jail, later entered a drug rehabilitation program, and finally cleaned up his act. Social psychologists
would refer to this kind of communicator as a(n) ____.
a. sleeper source
b. convert communicator
c. normative communicator
d. implicit source
B
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What is a meta-analysis?
a. a case study b. a form of psychoanalysis c. a way of measuring changes in observable behaviors d. a statistical technique for combining the results of many studies
How did Hans Selye define stress?
a. The result from facing lifelong difficulties such as poverty b. The way the body reacts to any demand made upon it c. Mental fatigue caused by dealing with unrealistic expectations d. Events that lead to unpleasant emotions such as fear and sadness
Which statement about Konrad Lorenz's imprinting of young birds to their parents is FALSE?
a. The imprinting attachment is irreversible. b. Imprinting develops automatically. c. Imprinting is based on parental feeding of the young. d. The imprinting must occur during a specific critical period following hatchout.
A study of African American families by Bowman and Howard (1985) found that parents who emphasized ethnic pride, the importance of self-development, and an awareness of racial barriers
A) encountered more discrimination in their neighborhoods. B) had children who were eventually more successful and upwardly mobile. C) tended to adopt children from other cultures. D) relied less on extended-family systems.