Jeff, Greg, Dan, and Ray all watched as the building across the street burned to the ground. They kept waiting for the fire trucks to show up, even though none of them had called 911 . In this case, the fact that none of the four friends phoned to report the fire illustrates the phenomenon known as
a. social loafing.
b. a self-fulfilling prophecy.
c. group polarization.
d. the bystander effect.
D
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a. social exclusion b. loneliness c. independence d. attraction
If other factors are held constant, which set of sample characteristics is most likely to reject a null hypothesis stating that ?= 80?
a. M = 85 for a sample of n = 25 c. M = 90 for a sample of n = 25 b. M = 85 for a sample of n = 100 d. M = 90 for a sample of n = 100
Toward the end of the 14th century and continuing into the 15th, the causes of "madness" were generally attributed to a. toxins in the blood
b. religious delusions. c. brain disease. d. demons and witches.
With bottom-up processing, a person is using ____ to recognize an object. With top-down processing, recognition is based on the use of ____.?
a. ?ocular accommodation; retinal disparity b. ?schemas; feature detection c. ?feature detection; schemas d. ?retinal disparity; ocular accommodation