A half-dozen high school students are going to a concert. Chantal wants to wear a new colorful outfit that she just received as a gift, but she assumes that her five friends will all be wearing nothing but black leather. Chantal decides to do likewise, and leaves her colorful outfit in the closet. Chantal's behavior is an example of
a. reciprocation wariness.
b. idiosyncrasy credits.
c. resistance.
d. conformity.
d
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An experimental psychologist wants to study the effects of depth of processing controlling for the effects of other study strategies that the participants might use spontaneously if they know they are going to be tested on their memory. To do this, the experimenter tells the participants that they are going to be participating in a reaction time test to see how quickly they can make different
kinds of judgments about each of a series of words that will be presented to them, and they are not told that they will be tested for memory of the words. These instructions to the subjects are called a. a pilot test. b. an orienting task. c. intentional learning instructions. d. priming.
_____ is the systematic observation of a patient’s behavior in the natural environment.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Arlene finds that even though she sat in the opposite corner of the classroom from Ronda during the entire term of their chemistry class, when they bump into each other at a party, she seems to like Ronda more than the strangers around
This is best explained by a. the mere exposure effect. b. functional distance. c. the propinquity effect. d. similarity.
Consistent evidence of artwork does not appear before:
a. 50,000 years ago. b. 300,000 years ago. c. 10,000 years ago. d. 5,000 years ago.