When groupthink occurs, there is extreme pressure to conform to the cohesive group; thus, people who may privately hold dissenting views tend to keep quiet, creating the
a. mindguard.
b. illusion of unanimity.
c. illusion of invulnerability.
d. transactive memory.
Answer: B
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A. corpus callosum B. cortex C. thalamus D. hypothalamus
Sam wants to be a clinical psychologist. He has been accepted at two different graduate schools. Both schools are equally prestigious and would provide him with an outstanding education. He must choose to attend one of the schools. Psychologists would call this type of conflict a(n)
a. avoidance-avoidance conflict. c. approach-approach conflict. b. approach-avoidance conflict. d. multiple approach-avoidance conflict.
In attribution, the tendency to believe that most other people think and act the same way that we do is called the:
a. self-serving bias b. false consensus effect c. misinterpret tendency d. locus of control bias
For Freud, the restraining forces located in the ego are called:
a. cathexes b. controllers c. death instincts d. anticathexes