Many popular books and movies focus on utopias (perfect societies) or dystopias (malfunctioning societies). Examples of dystopias are Lord of the Flies (Golding, 1954), The Hunger Games (Collins, 2008), or Divergent (Roth, 2011). Why do people like this kind of story? Is it because it makes us feel good-our society is better by comparison-or because it serves as a warning, reminding us of what society could become?
What will be an ideal response?
varies
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"I donate my time and money to a number of charities for children." This demonstrates which component of an attitude?
A. cognitive B. affective C. physiological D. behavioral
Which of the following is true?
a. The failure to replicate an experimental outcome can be instructive. b. The issue of generality of results is independent of the problem of replicability. c. Direct replications may be thought of as converging operations. d. Performing replications of an experiment adds little to our understanding of the phenomenon being studied.
Seligman and Peterson's study of the six human strengths that contribute to well-being and life satisfaction would be considered a topic of
a. trait-situation interaction. b. positive psychology. c. psychodynamic psychology. d. social learning.
If Charles Catania's thinking about reinforcement is applied to punishment, we can say that all of the following are true of punishment except _______
a. a behavior must have a consequence b. the consequence of the behavior must be negative c. a behavior must decrease in strength d. the decrease in strength must be the result of the behavior's consequence