According to research by Batson and his colleagues, when empathy is ________, people ________

a. low; will help when the costs of not helping are high
b. high; will help no matter what the costs
c. high; will pay attention to social exchange factors
d. low; only help when the costs of not helping are high


Answer: B

Psychology

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a. quick moral intuitions are common and critical. b. females are better at suppressing amoral tendencies than males. c. moral decision-making is based solely on situational context. d. most moral decision-making involves long, deliberative reasoning.

Psychology

Edward Titchener is known for:

A) establishing structuralism in the United States. B) writing a devastating critique of the behaviourist works of B. F. Skinner. C) establishing the functionalist concentration within psychology. D) writing the first book on physiological psychology.

Psychology

According to Rousseau, all the governments of his time were based on the faulty assumption that:

a. humans are rational. b. a limited government benefits everyone. c. humans need to be governed. d. government and free will can coexist.

Psychology

The time following an action potential during which a new action potential CANNOT be initiated is called the _____ period.

A) regenerative B) resting C) refractory D) omission

Psychology