Which of the following best defines conformity?
a) It refers to blindly following a religious belief.
b) It refers to yielding to real or imagined social pressure.
c) It refers to the fear of unknown things.
d) It refers to the state of lacking initiative.
b
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You locate a vending machine and deposit your last bit of change to buy a candy bar. Then you press the button, and nothing happens. You press the other buttons, try the coin return, and look for an attendant. Still nothing happens. Impulsively, you give the machine a little kick, and out pops a candy bar plus 75 cents. Because your kick produced food and money, the odds of repeating the "kicking
response" increase. This situation illustrates a. classical conditioning. b. vicarious conditioning. c. the law of association. d. the law of effect.
Javier is a 4th year clinical psychology graduate student. For the last two months, he has been busy writing up an original study that he conducted in the lab last term. Based on this information alone, one might guess that the document Javier has been working on is his
a. preliminary exam. b. thesis. c. dissertation. d. post-doc application.
Rochelle is taking a test in which she is asked to come up with as many different ways as possible to make use of a straw. This is most likely a test of
A) convergent thinking. B) divergent thinking. C) practical intelligence. D) analytic intelligence.
Advertisements often attempt to influence our behavior through
A. priming. B. autobiographical memory. C. maintenance rehearsal. D. elaborative rehearsal.