Research on peer victimization shows that ________
A) most bullies who engage in face-to-face verbal attacks are girls
B) school codes against bullying are rarely effective at reducing peer victimization
C) interventions that change victimized children’s negative opinions of themselves are helpful
D) chronic victims tend to be active when passive behavior is expected
Answer: C
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Which is one of the factors Insko and his colleagues have identified as a potential cause of the discontinuity effect?
a. Members are embarrassed to be display hostility before other group members. b. Members of interacting groups support a norm of tolerance for the outgroup. c. People do not wish to appear greedy, particularly if the rest of the group is willing to share. d. People expect intergroup relations to be more unfriendly and aggressive. e. People do not consider the members of the other group to humans.
If another student drops his books, we perceive him to be clumsy, but if we drop our books, we perceive something in the environment caused us to do so. This is referred to as:
a. self-serving bias b. locus of control effect c. actor-observer bias d. false consensus hypothesis
When Colin was young, he was stung by a bee and had a severe allergic reaction. Now, many years later, whenever he hears a buzzing sound (including when people imitate a buzzing sound), he becomes nervous and panics. In this example, the unconditioned stimulus is
a. the severe allergic reaction.
b. the bee sting.
c. the buzzing sound.
d. Colin's reacting nervously and panicking.
e . people imitating a buzzing sound.
Parkinson's disease __________, but Huntington's disease __________.
A. is characterized by a poverty of movement; is characterized by uncontrollable movement B. cannot be controlled; can be cured using pallidotomy C. is a hereditary disorder; does not usually have genetic origins D. usually occurs in the twenties and thirties; almost always occurs in the fifties and sixties