Regarding reference groups, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. A reference group is a type of membership group.
b. A reference group involves consistent face-to-face contact with members.
c. A reference group can cause people to shift their attitudes about particular ideas or topics.
d. A reference group represents a standard for social comparison.
ANSWER: b
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a. Did contagious yawning provide a survival advantage in early societies? b. Do stress hormones due to abuse in early childhood affect the ability to form memories? c. At what age can a child correctly separate the vocabulary and grammar of two languages? d. Will a study participant obey an authority figure even in violation of his or her own moral code?
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should have counterbalanced his experiment. That is, he should have presented the models of predators a. at the same speed to all birds. b. in different orders to different birds. c. in the same order to all birds. d. only once to each bird. e. with more time between each exposure.
Which of these is both an endocrine gland and the center for a variety of behaviors related to survival?
a) pancreas b) adrenals c) thyroid d) hypothalamus
Popper saw the scientific method as involving three stages:?
a. ?problem, theories, and criticism b. ?objective analysis, theories, and criticism c. ?observation, problem, and criticism d. ?problem, theories, and postdiction