When Liz broke her leg this winter, you decided that she probably fell because of all the icy sidewalks. Your decision is an example of:
a. an internal attribution
b. self-serving bias
c. cognitive dissonance
d. an external attribution
D
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Based on the field study by Shultz and his colleagues (2007) in which several households in a neighborhood received weekly feedback about their level of energy consumption relative to their neighbors,
if you wanted to encourage people to use less electricity, what would you do? a. Tell them the average level of energy consumption. b. Teach them ways to conserve energy. c. Give them smiley or sad faces depending on how well they conserved energy. d. Reduce their bill for efforts at efficiency.
The rate of major depression among the elderly is approximately __________percent, and the rate of minor depression is approximately __________ percent
A) 3; 15 B) 13; 25 C) 23; 25 D) 33; 15
According to Piaget's view of moral development, when a child recognizes that formal rules of a game can be modified if all players agree, she has entered the __________ stage.
A. autonomous cooperation B. heteronomous morality C. incipient cooperation D. sensorimotor
When we look at a white house, we can recognize it as a white house by day or night and from any angle. This is due to perceptual __________.
A. closure B. constancy C. reversibility D. coherency