One reason that popular children are more skillful in implementing several steps of the information-processing model of competent social interaction is that they
a. engage a peer group without regard for the consequences of that interaction.
b. are better able to encode and decipher social information correctly.
c. are more aggressive than rejected children when it comes to interjecting their own focus to a peer group.
d. never retaliate against aggressors.
B
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Imagine that anthropologists found a culture that had over 80 different words for rice. If researchers also found that the people in this culture thought about rice in different and more elaborate ways than people who have only one word for rice, it would
a. provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect. b. support social communication theory. c. support the linguistic relativity hypothesis. d. provide evidence that social communication theory is incorrect.
Behavior modification:
a. has a limited number of applications b. has a broad number of applications c. is mostly used with children d. is rarely used these days
The major approach used by health psychologists is the:
a. biomedical model c. biosocial model b. psychosocial model d. biopsychosocial model
Robert Sternberg created the influential
a. "liking" and "love" scales. b. social exchange theory. c. triangular theory of love. d. social comparison theory.