Jeff is a social psychologist who favors the "cold" approach to understanding human behavior. He is conducting research on why people fail to use condoms even when they know that condoms can reduce their risk of contracting HIV. Jeff is least likely to devote his attention to people's
a. drive to avoid this inconsistency.
b. ability to detect the inconsistency.
c. awareness of the actual risk of unprotected sex.
d. memories of behaving inconsistently with attitudes.
a
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a. The reliability must be low. b. The reliability must be intermediate. c. The reliability must be high. d. We cannot infer anything about its reliability.
Which of these messages would probably be most persuasive?
a. Global warming might or might not be a problem, but let's conserve energy just in case. b. Global warming threatens to destroy the planet unless we take extreme action now. c. Global warming is a problem, but simple actions that all of us can take will help. d. We need to act immediately, because it's probably already too late to stop global warming.
When this lobe of the brain is electrically stimulated, people report physical sensations as if they had been touched, for example, on the arm
a. frontal b. parietal c. temporal d. occipital
The zone of proximal development refers to the gap between the actual developmental level of a child versus the potential developmental level that the child is capable of with some assistance by more knowledgeable others
a) True b) False