Dr. Wold cautions his class about amphetamine use. He says, "They speed up central nervous system activity, which can account for users' increased alertness, energy, and feelings of euphoria. They also increase appetite and sleep. However, they are not physically addictive and do not produce tolerance." Which part of Dr. Wold's statement is accurate?
a. Their use increases appetite.
b. They are not physically addictive.
c. They speed up central nervous system activity.
d. Their use increases sleep.
C
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a. training children to make friends. b. teachers' ratings of children's friendships. c. children's ratings of their peers' popularity. d. sociologists' observations of children's alliances.
Researchers Darley and Gross (1983) showed different groups of people identical videotape footage of "Hannah," a girl who was said to come either from an impoverished background or from a wealthy background. They found that people stereotyped the girl as intellectually inferior when they were led to believe that she came from an impoverished background. However, this stereotype emerged only when
participants saw footage of Hannah performing ambiguously on an oral exam. This finding is best explained by the concept of ____. a. stigma by association b. the confirmation bias c. the fundamental attribution error d. scapegoat theory
When people estimate their confidence while providing eyewitness testimony,
a. they are typically more correct than they estimate themselves to be. b. they are almost as confident about their incorrect memories as they are about their correct memories. c. their confidence about their eyewitness testimony is strongly correlated with the accuracy of the testimony. d. their confidence is reduced because of the constructivist effect.
Future memory for things needing accomplished is called:
a. directed memory. b. predetermined memory. c. perspective memory. d. prospective memory.