In April, 2010, a homeless man helped a young woman fend off an attacker in Queens, New York
For his trouble, he was stabbed and fell to the sidewalk where he laid in a pool of his own blood. When emergency aid arrived over an hour later, Hugo Tale-Yax was already dead. Horrifyingly, surveillance video revealed that 25 people walked past him while he lay dying on the street. These 25 people exhibited what is known as the
a. mean worldview.
b. bystander effect.
c. instinctual nature of self-preservation.
d. weapons effect on observers.
ANSWER: b
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According to Ryckman, an adequate understanding of human personality will have to:
a. ignore the role played by unconscious factors in the determination of behavior b. account for the roles played by both conscious and unconscious factors in the production of behavior c. be based only on research that generates hypotheses about the biological roots of behavior d. ignore the roles played by social and cultural factors in the shaping of human personality
What is another name for the third variable?
a. confounding variable b. independent variable c. dependent variable d. random variable
The need for achievement is often assessed with the:
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Rorschach Inkblot Test. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. California Personality Inventory.
When do females usually begin puberty?
a. 1 year before males b. 1 year after males c. 2 years before males d. 2 years after males