Which type of adaptation, according to Merton's strain theory, is probably the least
common?
a. conformity
b. innovation
c. ritualism
d. retreatism
D
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Thomas Pettigrew's summary of research on attribution theory found that a. individuals are accurate in their perception of the motives of other people's acts, regardless of their in-group or out-group membership
b. attribution error is much less common than people think. c. individuals commonly distort the motives and acts of people whom they see as out-group members. d. when provided with information about out-groups that disproves negative perceptions of them, people quickly alter their perceptions.
Psychologist Jean Piaget stated that cognitive development is a continuous process of successive changes and that the sequence of the stages of cognitive development is not important
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Letter grades given at the end of the term are an example of measurements? calculated GPA's are a type of _______________ measurement
a. ordinal; interval b. ordinal; ratio c. interval; ratio d. nominal; ratio e. none of these
Through her extensive studies of family stress, Pauline Boss concluded that:
A. all families in crisis are sick families. B. families in the past were, in fact, under more pressures than those today. C. "sick" families must absent themselves from crisis. D. many families in crisis are not sick families but are simply facing a greater volume of stress than they, or most other families, can handle.