Bob Smith is running for office. He often tries to get people worked up over the issues. If he were a social psychologist, he would explain that he does this because attitudes with a strong emotional impact are more

a. specific. c. accessible.
b. vested. d. all of these.


C

Psychology

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a. Type I b. Type II c. null d. one-tailed

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Some research has shown that experts have a tendency to produce evaluations and opinions that are partial to the side that retained them

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

The Gardners taught Washoe a manual language

a. to eliminate confounding variables such as prosody, accent, and tone of voice. b. because chimpanzees cannot produce the variety of speech sounds that humans can. c. to provide some control over vocabulary. d. to reduce the possibility that researchers would demonstrate the meaning of a word with their hands. e. because she suffered from Wernicke's aphasia.

Psychology

The idea that both the consequences of behavior and an individual's beliefs about them

determine personality is at the heart of the __________ approach to personality. a. psychodynamic b. social cognitive c. trait d. humanistic e. cognitive

Psychology