Which of the following describes the scientific study of how people influences each other?
A. sociology
B. social psychology
C. anthropology
D. counseling psychology
Answer: B
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Sophie is experiencing so much guilt associated with the death of her boyfriend that it is beginning to interfere in every aspect of her life. She is probably experiencing a. a near-death experience. b. separation distress
c. normal bereavement. d. anticipatory grief.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Collaborative inhibition is due to the social loafing phenomenon 2. Transience refers to forgetting that occurs as a result of divided attention 3. Hermann Ebbinghaus first described how information in long-term memory is forgotten with the passage of time 4. As time passes, information is lost from long-term memory at a constant rate 5. As time passes, we begin to lose information in our long-term memory store at a faster and faster rate
You and a friend are seated in the large auditorium psychology class. There are two students seated right behind you talking about what they did last weekend. You have trouble concentrating on what the teacher is saying, but you picked up on a lot of campus gossip from the conversation going on behind you. At the end of class, you relate to your friend the latest gossip heard during class, but
she does not remember hearing any gossip and is really worried about how she will complete the new assignment that the teacher discussed today. You think, "What new assignment?" This explains the difference in your and your friend's a. short-term memory. b. redintegrative memory. c. selective attention. d. procedural memory.
Every time John gets in his car and begins to drive without a seatbelt, an annoying red flashing light blinks. John is less likely to drive the car without his seatbelt in the future. This is an example of ______.
a. operant conditioning b. classical conditioning c. positive reinforcement d. extinction