According to work by Pennebaker and colleagues, if you were at a bar, the perceived attractiveness of another individual would ____ as the night progressed
a. go down
b. go up
c. stay the same
d. go up then go down
Answer: B
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Many psychologists believe that allowing smaller jury sizes is a bad idea. What is not one of their explanations for this view?
a. Tension and interpersonal conflict are more likely in small groups as opposed to large ones. b. Smaller juries are less representative of the communities from which they are drawn. c. Smaller juries spend less time discussing the case. d. It is harder for a dissenting juror to hold out for her position when she does not have a single ally.
In the generalization gradient produced following simple tone-on S+ discrimination learning (see Exercise 40), the x-axis displays ________ and the y-axis displays ________.
a. responses during the tone; responses during the absence of the tone b. responses during the tone; the different tones used during generalization testing. c. the DS response strength; the different tones used during generalization testing. d. the different tones during generalization testing; responses during the tone.
Dieting results in a(n) __________ of the metabolic rate
a. slowing b. speeding c. increase d. leveling
Stan has been in prison for almost a year. When he first arrived he had trouble sleeping and was very fearful. As the year progressed, he developed a "tough guy" veneer and now has a general understanding of the culture of the prison. According to Clemmer (1958), Stan has undergone
A. colonization. B. prisonization. C. tolerantization. D. habituation.