Harold Kelley's model of attribution holds that behavior can vary along which dimensions?
A. Act, potency, and evaluation
B. Augmentation and evaluation
C. Consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness
D. Consensus and discounting
Answer: C
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Middle-class African-American mothers encouraged the physical activity of their daughters and limited their consumption of snack foods and sugary carbonated beverages. Mothers who lived at the poverty line
a. encouraged their daughters to drink more water and limited their daughters' consumption of fatty foods. b. were more likely to feed their daughters vegetarian diets. c. were more likely to feed their daughters diets high in fats and fast foods. d. encouraged more physical exercise than any other group.
Dr. Howard, a clinical psychologist by training, has built a program of research around the genetic and environmental determinants of various personality traits (studying, for instance, how much of each trait is determined by genetic vs. environmental factors). These interests suggest that Dr. Howard is
a. a molecular geneticist. b. a behavior geneticist. c. a behavioral scientist. d. a clinical neuroscientist.
Children in medieval Europe were thought of as
a. wild animals that needed to be tamed. b. miniature, somewhat imperfect adults. c. inconsequential individuals not worth mentioning. d. knowledgeable and enlightened human beings.
Findings from social neuroscience suggest that
a. it has been evolutionarily beneficial for the brain to be able to rapidly form categories. b. the tendency to form categories and stereotypes is determined largely by experience. c. people in some cultures are more likely to form stereotypes than other people. d. experience plays almost no role in the ability to notice different categories.