Patricia wants her brother Mike to look after her children for a weekend. First she asks him if he will take them up to his cottage when he goes there for two weeks in August. When he refuses, she asks if he will look after them for a weekend in August instead, and he agrees to do so. This is an example of:
a. the foot-in-the-door technique
b. the low-ball technique
c. the door-in-the-face technique
d. the that's-not-all technique
e. the indirect influence technique
Ans: c
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a. social psychology. b. clinical psychology. c. personality psychology. d. sociology.
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a. gender identities b. gender roles c. social leanings d. social mores
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A. computational approaches and Gestalt approaches B. top-down processing and bottom-down processing C. actual images and retinal images D. distal stimuli and proximal stimuli
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
When the long tail points toward positive infinity the distribution is skew to the right.