Studies testing a terror management theory of leadership discovered that, when mortality is made salient, followers were least positive toward a ___ leader.

  a.  charismatic
  b.  task-oriented
  c.  relationship-oriented
  d.  male
  e.  short


  c.  relationship-oriented

Psychology

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Which of the following concepts does the all-or-none law describe?

A. All dendrites must be hyperpolarized before a neuron fires. B. All neurons in a nerve fire or none of them fires. C. The size of an action potential does not depend on the amplitude of the stimulus that started it. D. The frequency at which a neuron fires is independent of the intensity of the stimulus.

Psychology

Psychologists do not need to concern themselves with the issue of generality of results as much as scientists in other disciplines

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

In presidential election campaigns, many television ads focus on the "negatives" of an opponent. Campaign managers are obviously aware that when people are forming impressions,

A. they tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. B. self-serving biases are often influential. C. negative information tends to be more important than positive information. D. they tend to believe what they see and hear on television over what they read in newspapers and hear on the radio.

Psychology

Psychoanalytic theorists were strongly committed to

A) the experimental method. B) correlational studies of preschool children. C) systematic observation. D) in-depth study of individual children.

Psychology