A neighborhood committee is debating whether to spend money on a fireworks celebration. At first, every member favors moderate spending for fireworks. What will probably happen after a discussion?
a. The committee will split into opposing factions and fail to make a decision.
b. The committee will spend less than what most members originally favored.
c. The committee will spend more than what most members originally favored.
d. The committee will spend about the average of what most members originally favored.
c
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a) Dishabituation b) Habituation c) Desensitization d) Inculcation
Ernst Weber provided a formulation that is used to determine the ________
a) largest detectable stimulus b) smallest detectable stimulus c) largest detectable difference between two stimuli d) change in smallest detectable difference between two stimuli
Because they provide the potential offender ________, threats of harsh punishment seldom produce positive attitude change
a. ample external justification for restraint b. an excuse for psychological reactance c. sufficient internal justification for restraint d. an internal attribution for restraint
The correlation between the group means and their respective contrast weights is known as the
a. contrast correlation. b. alerting correlation. c. effect size correlation. d. coefficient of determination.