Participants may not be willing to use the extreme ends of a rating scale. Consequently, rating scales should include at least five points.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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According to correspondent inference theory, correspondent inferences are most likely to occur when a person's behavior is
a. not freely chosen, expected, and results in many desirable outcomes. b. freely chosen, expected, and results in few desirable outcomes. c. freely chosen, unexpected, and results in many desirable outcomes. d. freely chosen, unexpected, and results in few desirable outcomes.
Approximately an hour after falling asleep, Daisy’s roommate repeatedly shakes her shoulder and asks Daisy to move her car out of the driveway. Daisy takes several minutes to respond to her roommate and then opens the refrigerator to find her keys. Daisy was most likely in ____
a. ?Stage 1 N-REM b. ?Stage 2 N-REM c. ?Stage 3 or 4 N-REM d. ?REM sleep
A professor asks a group of 8-year-olds and a group of 16-year-olds to argue that they should receive a reduction in their allowance, an argument with which they all surely disagree. Which of the following statements is a likely result of this study?
Almost none of the students will be able to do this. Eight-year-olds will be able to do this, but 16-year-olds will be unable to do this. Sixteen-year-olds will be able to do this, but 8-year-olds will be unable to do this. Almost all of the students will be able to do this easily.
You spend Thanksgiving vacation at your friend's home. When you first enter your friend's home you are struck by a funny smell, which no one else seems to notice. What process is responsible for the different reactions you and your friend's family have?
a) adaptation b) habituation c) transduction d) cognitive dissonance