Which of these procedures would produce cognitive dissonance?
a. Surround someone with people who are giving obviously wrong answers.
b. Ask someone to evaluate several pieces of contradictory information.
c. Pay someone a small bribe to say something he/she didn't believe.
d. Ask someone to do one thing, and then ask him/her to do the opposite.
c
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In which of the following disorders is it possible to tell whether or not someone is a carrier?
Tay-Sachs disease albinism schizophrenia congenital deafness
To detect developmental problems before birth, doctors use __________
A) prenatal diagnostic methods B) genomic imprinting C) gene therapy D) carrier detectors
Research demonstrates that most individuals
a. overestimate how salient their own behaviors and appearance are to others b. underestimate their own intelligence c. expect higher grades than they receive d. feel self-feedback is more important than feedback from others
If you use the Internet, you are probably familiar with emoticons: facial expressions displayed using a combination of typographic figures, e.g., :-) for a smile. Asian countries have their own set of emoticons; in these (which are viewed without having to turn one's head), there are different smiling facial figures for a man smiling (^_^) and a woman smiling (^ . ^), since in Japan, women are not supposed to exhibit a wide, uninhibited smile. This difference between the men's and women's emoticons in Japan is due to a(n)
a. emblem. b. display rule. c. affect blend. d. decoding difference.