Stereotyping allows us to gain potentially useful information for relatively little cognitive effort. What personal and situational factors can make people more likely to use their stereotypes in order to conserve mental effort?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Personal factors: need for structure and mood/emotions. Situational factors: cognitively taxing circumstances, overhearing ethnic slurs (contextual cues).
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Which statement is TRUE of drug tolerance?
A) With continued use, lesser amounts of a drug are needed to produce the same effect. B) Discontinuing drug use produces physical sickness. C) With continued use, the same dose of a drug has less of an effect. D) With continued use, a person begins to crave the drug less.
The two main divisions of the nervous system are the ________ and ________
a) brain; spinal cord b) autonomic; somatic nervous systems c) peripheral nervous system; central nervous system d) glands; muscles
Sir Francis Galton would have agreed with all of the following statements EXCEPT that
a. intelligence is not quantifiable. b. intellectual differences among people will form a normal distribution. c. mental ability can be measured by objective tests. d. statistical procedures could be applied to measure the degree of relationship between two traits.
Power is the probability of rejecting H0 if it is false
Indicate whether the statement is true or false