A(n) ________ refers to one of several socially defined behavior patterns expected of a person in a particular setting or group
a. self-fulfilling prophecy
b. demand characteristic
c. informational influence
d. social role
e. situational prophecy
d. social role
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Compare vision and hearing with regard to the type of stimulus and information processing for each sense
What will be an ideal response?
One benefit of using projective personality tests instead of nonprojective personality tests is the ____.?
a. ?higher difficulty for the respondent to guess the "correct" answer b. ?higher validity and reliability of projective tests c. ?ease with which projective tests can be administered d. ?ease of interpreting scores and responses
A student wants to know whether people who believe in an afterlife cope better with stressful life events than those who do not. Which of the following methods of answering this question does NOT rely on empirical data about this relationship? a. asking a member of the clergy whether people who believe in an afterlife cope better with stressful life events
b. interviewing several people about their beliefs about an afterlife and their reactions to stressful events in their lives. c. administering a questionnaire to several people that measures their coping skills and their beliefs about an afterlife. d. comparing the reactions to a stressful situation of people who do and do not believe in an afterlife.
The technique used to determine the ability of someone to detect the presence of a stimulus is:
a. signal detection b. psychophysics c. systematic introspection d. functionalism