A social psychological explanation of the poor decisions of President Kennedy's administration in the Bay of Pigs incident is best described by which principle?
a. obedience
b. social facilitation c. social loafing
d. cognitive dissonance e. groupthink
e
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Systematic desensitization is a modern version of
a. operant conditioning. b. observational conditioning c. counterconditioning d. instrumental conditioning.
According to the theory of signal detection, perceptual judgments involve
a. decision processes only. b. an absolute threshold. c. sensory processes only. d. both sensory and decision processes.
When someone said your name across the room, your attention shifted immediately from the TV news you had been intently watching to that conversation. This is most similar to:
a. shadowing b. auditory neglect c. the cocktail party effect d. attentional rebound
Judging time and rhythm and coordinating the order of complex movements, such as those needed for speech, are special skills of the
a. right hemisphere. b. left hemisphere. c. corpus callosum. d. limbic system.