Even though his father was absent when he was a child, Barack Obama had a number of significant models in his life
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: True
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If test-takers are likely to answer items on a self-report test in terms of their social desirability rather than truthfully, this problem can be solved by . . .
a. Asking respondents to choose between items matched on social desirability b. Asking respondents to answer honestly c. Asking respondents to take a lie detector test d. All of the above
Short-term memories can be prolonged by
a. counting aloud to prevent new input. b. maintenance rehearsal. c. brain stimulation. d. proactive cueing.
African American Medicaid recipients are _____ likely than Caucasian recipients to receive _________.
A. more likely; effective antipsychotic medication. B. less likely; effective antipsychotic medication. C. just as likely; care under parens patriae powers. D. just as likely; a criminal punishment related to mental illness behaviors.
Cross-cultural replications of Solomon Asch's original (1951) conformity studies (in which participants gave public judgments of the lengths of lines) have revealed that
a. because humans are a social species, normative conformity pressures are universal. b. people's conformity in these situations varies depending on the culture in which they were reared. c. cultures differ in the extent to which private acceptance follows from public compliance. d. implicit conformity pressures vary from culture to culture, but explicit pressures do not.