In the famous case of murder victim Kitty Genovese, none of the witnesses to her stabbing came to her aid. Psychologists later called this phenomenon ________.
A. situational attribution
B. cognitive dissonance
C. social facilitation
D. the bystander effect
Answer: D
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a. cause. b. location. c. quantity. d. consequence.
Selye inferred that any threat to the body, in addition to its specific effects, activated a generalized response to stress, which he called the ____
a. general stress syndrome b. general adaptation syndrome c. general activation syndrome d. general limbic syndrome
Savanna is on a committee interviewing applicants for a position with her company. Over the four-hour time period, the committee interviews eight different applicants. Savanna remembers most of the comments made by the first two applications, but she finds it more difficult to remember specific comments made by any of the later applicants. Based on research into memory errors, you should conclude
that Savanna's memory difficulties best illustrate: a. the primacy effect b. motivated forgetting c. the recency effect d. the spacing effect
Regarding ethnicity and IQ scores, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. IQ is a good predictor of later career success. b. What psychologist Robert Sternberg calls practical intelligence may be seen by minority cultures as more important than analytic intelligence. c. Studies that used actual blood grouping testing found no significant correlations between ethnic ancestry and IQ scores. d. Group differences in IQ scores are based as much on cultural and environmental diversity as heredity.