A group of chemists, who have been working together on a
new diet pill for the last four years, met to discuss their new drug. Over the years, they have all come to respect each other and have formed a close bond. Upon discussing the effectiveness and safety of the diet pill, many members of the group found themselves agreeing with most of the comments that were made. Somewhere along the way, no one seemed to pay much attention to the fact that some of the subjects in the clinical trials of that drug became ill. It seemed that because nobody wanted to disrespect anyone else, the topic of ill subjects was dropped. What psychological phenomenon occurred here?
A) Social facilitation B) Group polarization
C) Groupthink D) Social loafing
C
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a. interference theory. c. repression. b. decay theory. d. displacement.
Enter the letter for the correct definition next to the terms below.
A. Constituent B. Categorical perception C. Mental lexicon D. Morpheme E. Phoneme F. Semanticity G. Situational model H. Syntactic parsing
North America today looks very different from the North American of even 20 years ago. The population ______.
A. is becoming older B. has many more younger individuals who are the largest consumers of health care C. is becoming less ethnically diverse D. has a larger population of middle age adults than other age groups
Conditioning is one explanation for how ____ develops
A) ?fetishism B) ?autoerotic asphyxia C) ?transvestic disorder D) ?zoophilia