Drug rehabilitation programs often require that their patients discontinue contact with old "using" friends, and maintain friendships with new "clean" friends only. One reason that this makes sense from a social psychological standpoint is that by changing their social networks in this way, ____
a. patients will have a better shot at creating new, more positive self-concepts
b. patients will be forced to engage in more introspection
c. patients will engage in more self-awareness
d. patients will be less likely to experience the overjustification effect
A
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The stories of Croesus, Galen, and Semmelweis are important because they reflect:
a. how statistical analyses are conducted. b. the importance of random sampling. c. different ways of solving problems. d. empiricism at different levels of observation.
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a. It proves that children do not have good recall memory. b. It shows that parents should remind their children of past events more frequently, particularly when it involves fun memories that the children would like to have later on in life. c. It suggests that children may not make very good eye witnesses, particularly when there are extended periods of time between the criminal event and the trial. d. It implies that infantile amnesia is a natural part of developing recall memory.
Being “reduced to a stereotype” by others is most consistent with which conceptualization of stigma?
A. Stigma is situationally determined. B. Stigma is a mismatch of identities. C. Stigma is an attribute—stereotype connection. D. Stigma is being the object of ambivalence.