At a local health fair, you see a business selling exercise equipment. One of their marketing tools is to give you a one-month-free rental of any piece of exercise equipment. You realize that this tool is really the:
A. foot-in-the-door technique
B. cognitive dissonance method
C. arousal-cost-reward technique
D. social comparison method
Answer: A
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Two friends are debating about the nature of IQ. Sam claims that it measures innate abilities. Joseph says that it is influenced strongly by environmental factors. Which of the following could Joseph truthfully use to support his arguments?
A. It has been estimated that IQ can vary up to 15 points depending on environment. B. Identical twins raised together tend to have similar IQs. C. It is likely that two unrelated people raised in different environments will have different IQs. D. Adopted children have IQs that are similar to those of children who have stayed with their natural lower-class parents.
Neo-Piagetian theorists combine which of the following to explain cognitive development in children?
A) Erikson's developmental stages and Piaget's cognitive theory B) Piaget's cognitive theory and information processing theory C) Bandura's observational theory and Piaget's cognitive theory D) Social-learning theory and Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
Blair watches the newscast each evening, with its usual diet of fires and other accidents. She often eats at Herby's Fried Snacks, a restaurant located in a brick building,
despite the fact that her eating there has resulted in bad indigestion several times. She avoids the well-respected Korean restaurant, because the Korean restaurant is in a wooden building. Blair's eating habits are probably being guided by ________. A) the availability heuristic B) an anti-Korean prejudice C) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic D) an addiction to fried snacks E) the representativeness heuristic