Your social psychology professor calls you up to the front of the classroom and asks you to answer a series of course-related questions out loud
Even though you feel the eyes of your classmates on you, you find the questions to be easy. According to the model of _____________, you should perform _____________ on these questions than you would have if you had been asked them in private, without an audience.
a. social facilitation; worse
b. social facilitation; better
c. social loafing; worse
d. social loafing; better
Answer: B
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a. the fear of death leads people to choose the central route to persuasion. b. reminders of mortality lead people to prefer one-sided messages to two-sided messages. c. fear arousal can influence even attitudes as important as political opinions. d. the higher the level of fear arousal in a persuasive communication, the stronger the agreement with it.
According to Freud, gender identification is completed as children resolve the Oedipus or Electra complex.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Declines in the sensitivity to smell is noticeable by ______.
A. adolescence B. the early twenties C. midlife D. the late forties
Semantic encoding is related to an increase of activity in which brain regions?
A) the lower left frontal lobe and the inner part of the left parietal lobe B) the lower left frontal lobe and the inner part of the left temporal lobe C) the lower right frontal lobe and the inner part of the left occipital lobe D) the lower right frontal lobe and the inner part of the right parietal lobe