Comparing ourselves to people who are better than we are on a particular trait or ability.
A. reasons-generated attitude change
B. causal theories
C. upward social comparison
D. self-awareness theory
Ans: C. upward social comparison
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Francis Galton believed that intelligence was:
A. acquired or learned B. inherited or biological C. correlated with brain size D. due to both nature and nurture
What is one recommendation for dealing with acculturative stress?
a) Accept the values and customs of the new culture. b) Live a life that does not depend on adopting any set of values and customs. c) Maintain two separate existences, one related to the old culture and one to the new. d) Develop a new set of values that is a compromise between the old and the new culture.
Your niece is 7 months old and you are about to meet her for the first time. You are concerned that she will be afraid of you and want to minimize the chance that meeting you will cause her stranger anxiety. What would you do?
a. Greet her and give her your complete attention as soon as you meet her. b. Arrange to see her for the first time in an environment that is familiar to her. c. Meet her in an environment that is unfamiliar to her. d. Pick her up right away when you meet her.
Students can get a teacher off the subject by asking one
slightly off-topic question, which sets up an association with another topic and then to another topic and so on until the teacher is "miles" from what she was originally teaching. This illustrates which model of memory? a. consolidation model b. eidetic model c. pseudoassociation model d. network model