According to Postmes and Spears (1998), people in groups become deindividuated as a result of their increased sensitivity to
A) the group's structure.
B) the actions of others in the group.
C) the personal values of others in the group.
D) social facilitation processes.
Answer: B
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A. mental illness B. coronary heart disease C. cancer D. respiratory illnesses
Which of the following is true about electronic communication?
A. People are equally likely to be abusive whether they are anonymous or named. B. People are more willing to lie in an email than when using pen and paper. C. People are less willing to "troll" if their profile contains a photo. D. People are kinder if they expect to ever meet others in "real life."
What is one reason that many women do not file sexual harassment complaints?
a) The rate of sexual harassment is actually very low. b) They do not perceive many of the incidents as sexual harassment. c) They fear the publicity over the attention their complaint would receive. d) Men are likely to differ in their perceptions of sexual harassment in explicitly coercive instances.
One-year-old George, who lives in Turkey, is learning Turkish. Compared to 1-year-olds growing up in the United States and learning English, George most likely will
a. make more grammatical errors because Turkish is a more complex language than English b. need explicit instructions from his parents and other adults in order to learn the complex Turkish suffixation system c. have an advantage over children learning English because it is easier to learn the Turkish rule for adding suffixes than it is to learn all of the irregular verb forms that are found in English d. acquire the grammatical rules for Turkish with very few errors