Imagine that a researcher conducts a study in which the
participants are either strongly for or strongly against allowing openly gay soldiers to serve in the military. The researcher presents participants with a policy that is supposedly endorsed by an authority with views similar to their own. What are the results of such a study likely to indicate?
A) Participants are most likely to be convinced by a policy that is dissimilar to their own ideas.
B) Participants are most likely to be convinced by a policy that is similar to their own ideas.
C) Participants are most likely to be convinced only by a policy with strong evidence.
D) Participants are unlikely to be convinced on the basis on authority alone.
Answer: B
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a. No, all aspects of the experience are changing equally. b. The memory of the pain experience changes more than the pain itself. c. The physical sensation of pain changes more than the emotional response to it. d. The emotional response to the pain changes more than the physical sensation.
Which of the following is a contributing factor to child abuse?
a) middle-income socioeconomic status b) multigenerational families living in the same house c) families with only one child d) families with four or more children
Explain the contribution of each of the following theorists to the understanding of childhood social-emotional development: Konrad Lorenz, Harry and Marguerite Harlow, Mary Ainsworth, Diana Baumrind
What will be an ideal response?
Dewey regarded the mind?body as a non-issue and saw it as the result of the __________. This was a process of intellectual analysis whereby a complex phenomenon was subjected to intellectual abstraction (parts or aspects were separated conceptually) and then those abstractions were treated as though they had in independent existence.
a. anthropomorphization b. tradition of separation and isolation c. intellectualism d. rationalism