What occurred in the research by Balletic and Dunning (2007) in which participants were asked to walk across a college campus wearing an embarrassing costume?
a. Students in the high-choice condition underestimated how far they had walked relative to those in the lowchoice condition.
b. Students in the low-choice condition underestimated how far they had walked relative to those in the
highchoice condition.
c. Students with insufficient justification for their embarrassing actions overestimated how far they had walkedrelative to those with sufficient justification.
d. The motivation to reduce dissonance had no effect on participants' visual representations of the naturalenvironment.
a
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A. top-down processing B. complex processing C. bottom-up processing D. perceptual constancy
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a. Most do not remain friends. But they say this (and they often try to remain friends) because they are reluctant to break social bonds. b. Most do not remain friends, and never, in fact, expect to remain friends. They say this only to be polite. c. Most do remain friends, despite thinking that they won't. d. Most do remain friends, though such friendships are harder to sustain than other friendships.
In general, what characteristics of the difference scores are most likely to produce a significant t statistic for the repeated-measures hypothesis test?
a. A large number of scores and a large variance b. A large number of scores and a small variance c. A small number of scores and a large variance d. A small number of scores and a small variance
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A. automatic encoding B. maintenance rehearsal C. elaborative rehearsal D. sensory encoding