Based on what your text reports, which of the following conditions of punishment is most likely to deter violent criminals?
a. Punishment is fair.
b. Punishment is severe.
c. Punishment is prompt and severe.
d. Punishment is prompt and certain.
Answer: D
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Members of certain minority groups may have low academic achievement because they __________.
A. perceive that school success is relatively unimportant to future workplace success because discrimination will hamper advancement B. are at a genetic disadvantage compared to members of other groups C. lack the social, interpersonal, and communication skills to fully benefit from a formal education D. have a greater number of parents who themselves never succeeded within the educational environment
Which of these changes in procedure greatly increased obedience in Milgram's study asking a "teacher" to give shocks to a "learner"?
a. More obedience if the teacher could see the learner b. More obedience if a confederate shared the teacher's task of training and shocking c. More obedience if the study used women instead of men as teachers d. More obedience if the study occurred in an office building instead of a university campus
Thurstone proposed that there were a few stable and independent mental abilities that he referred to as:
A. primary mental abilities. B. fluid mental abilities. C. general mental abilities. D. performance mental abilities. E. factoral mental abilities.
You decide that you want to study more, so you set a series of gradual, daily goals and reinforce yourself for meeting each goal in the series. You are using a technique known as
a. latent learning. b. shaping. c. vicarious classical conditioning. d. intermittent conditioning.