Naturalistic observation of helping behaviour in public places reveal a _____ between the size of a group and the willingness of any one individual to help someone in need.
A) positive correlation
B) negative correlation
C) direct causal relationship
D) causal and inverse relationship
B) negative correlation
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Infants who are socially deprived over a long time period can easily recover from any negative effects of this deprivation once they are given attention
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Suppose that a politician is drafting her position paper on the educational situation in her district. She is trying to decide whether she should say, "If we adopt Plan A, we estimate that 10% of our students will drop out of high school before grad
Alternately, she might say, "If we adopt Plan A, we estimate that 90% of our students will graduate from high school." She would probably find that her audience responds differently to these two versions of her talk, because of a. the belief-bias effect. b. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. c. the hindsight bias. d. the framing effect.
By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to
A. perceive the stimulus. B. process the stimulus. C. attend to the stimulus. D. make a decision about the stimulus.
Can brain activity define behavior?
A. It can in nonhuman subjects, but there is a mind/brain divide in human subjects. B. Activity in the center of the brain can define behavior, but activity in or near the cortex cannot. C. No. The physical brain and the conscious mind are separate entities. D. We do not know the answer to this question yet.