Researchers such as Baumeister and Leary (1995) argue that the need to belong to groups is present in all societies because
a. group membership has conferred evolutionary advantages to humans.
b. cultural norms everywhere dictate that people cooperate.
c. hunting and farming have been replaced by business and technology.
d. the Industrial Revolution brought about increased specialization in the workforce.
Answer: A
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a) She is able to use the same retrieval cues for all three subjects. b) She recalls sociology material when trying to answer geography test questions. c) Her performance on recall items on all tests exceeds her recognition performance. d) When taking the psychology test, material from geography and sociology keeps coming to mind.
According to the article Chip Off the Old Block which discussed genetics and the Colorado Adoption Project, the maximum percentage of genes we share with an ordinary full sibling can fall between:
(a) 25% and 50% (b) 25% and 75% (c) 45% and 55% (d) 0% and 100%
Latané and Darley (1968) told participants that they were interested in the kind of problems that college students experience. This explanation to their participants was the
a. independent variable. b. dependent variable. c. cover story. d. experimental debriefing.
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a. some relationships are communal, in the sense that people are not concerned about the rewards they are getting from their partners. b. the main predictor of whether people will stay in a relationship is how satisfied they are with that relationship. c. some women stay in abusive relationships because they have a high investment in the relationship and they have poor alternatives. d. when deciding whether to stay in a relationship, people rarely consider their "comparison level."