While watching Jeopardy, your roommate says, "Alex Trebek knows all the answers. He must be a genius." You tell your roommate she probably would not have said that if she had attended class the day the instructor discussed the topic of
a. social facilitation.
b. stereotyping illusions.
c. internal attribution biases.
d. fundamental attribution errors.
e. stereotype threat.
d. fundamental attribution errors.
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In a study by Baron et al. (1996) in which groups of three participants were asked to act as eyewitnesses, the greatest level of conformity occurred when participants were motivated to be ____ and the task was quite ____
a. accurate? easy b. accurate? difficult c. accepted by their partners? easy d. accepted by their partners? difficult
Cognitive therapy was developed initially to treat
a. phobias. b. depression. c. anxiety. d. posttraumatic stress.
A man has the opportunity to cheat his business partner, but he is so worried about getting caught that he does not. In Freudian theory, the man was probably prevented from cheating by his
A. id. B. ego. C. superego. D. conscience.
After participating in an experiment on the effects of alcohol on sociability, Megan could not wait to return to her sorority house to tell all of her sisters about it. In this situation, the researcher should be concerned with the confound of a. mortality
b. regression to the mean. c. testing. d. diffusion of treatment.