A change in performance on a task that is caused by the mere presence of others is called
a. the mere exposure effect.
b. social facilitation.
c. social influence.
d. compliance.
e. the bystander effect.
b. social facilitation.
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Research on young children with terminal illnesses shows that they
a. usually know that they are going to die. b. should not be told the details about their illness or that they are going to die. c. do not have any idea that their illness will result in death. d. continue to focus on what will happen to them as adults.
Advocates of behavior modification assume that
a. what is learned can be unlearned. b. classical conditioning cannot be changed. c. environment does not influence behavior. d. self-modification cannot work.
Which statement about studies on U.S. sexual behavior is true??
a. ?Representative samples were not used. b. ?Pornography, pedophilia, and fetishism were specifically covered. c. ?People in the United States may be rather sexually conservative. d. ?Response rates were relatively low for this mail-in survey.
Ensuring experimental control is often more difficult in research on thinking and problem solving because
a. between-subjects designs are often used. b. experiments in this area are often more complicated than experiments in other areas of psychology. c. there are many extraneous variables that might influence performance. d. all of these.