A generally accepted taxonomy of traits:
a. would actually hinder communication among investigators
b. would reassure personality psychologists that they had not inadvertently omitted consideration of some important trait in their study of some problem
c. would permit investigators to predict accurately all of our behavior
d. would hinder progress in understanding human personality
b
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When groupthink occurs in a committee discussion, what is the result?
a. The committee rejects its first decision and decides on the opposite. b. The committee reaches a well-informed decision. c. The committee breaks into opposing groups that cannot compromise. d. The committee suppresses questions and doubts about its decision.
In an experiment, researchers exposed half of the participants to loud noise during a memory-encoding task. The room was quiet for the other half of the participants. Later, all participants were given a memory test and the number of correct items recalled was obtained for each participant. The participants who encoded information in the quiet room constitute the:
A) independent variable. B) dependent variable. C) experimental group. D) control group.
When traveling outside of one's homeland where a different language is spoken and the cultural values are much different, one could best communicate his or her happiness to members of different cultures by
a. making the hand signal for "Okay" using the finger and thumb. b. smiling. c. nodding one's head. d. maintaining eye contact.
When a conditioned response is established to a conditioned stimulus by virtue of its association with another conditioned stimulus, the process is called _____
A) spontaneous recovery B) higher-order conditioning C) extinction D) stimulus generalization