One way to encourage more people to recycle would be to institute curbside recycling. This includes providing free containers for sorting glass, paper,
and aluminum, and increasing the number of recycling bins throughout a community. These strategies are likely to work, given Kurt Lewin's early assertion that
a. subjective perceptions are more important than objective reality.
b. big social changes can occur with the removal of small barriers.
c. attitudes are powerful predictors of simple behaviors (like recycling).
d. human beings dislike cognitive inconsistency.
Answer: B
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a. "Why do women stay in an abusive relationship?" b. "What can women do to make their male partners less violent?" c. "What can our society do to make it clear that abuse is not acceptable?" d. "How can women encourage men to promise that they will stop all future abuse?"
Which of the following is an ethical problem associated with a placebo control group?
A. The withholding of treatment or providing treatment known to be ineffective. B. The testing of potentially dangerous medications on unaware people. C. Telling subjects that the experimental treatment will help them when there is no way of knowing in advance that it will. D. The intentional manipulation of subjects' opinions to sway research results.
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a. the intercept plus the sum of all the predictor variables (X's), each multiplied by their regression coefficients. b. the sum of all the predictor variables (X's), each multiplied by their regression coefficients. c. the intercept minus the sum of all the predictor variables (X' s), each multiplied by their regression coefficients. d. the intercept minus the sum of all the predictor variables (X's), each divided by their regression coefficients.