People exhibit a weighting bias in their incorporation of new information within their attitudes, such that negative information about an object ______.
a. has a stronger influence than positive information about it
b. is discounted in the face of positive information about it
c. is forgotten more quickly than positive information about it
d. primes positive information about it
Ans: a
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a. diffusion of responsibility. b. pluralistic ignorance. c. audience inhibition. d. negative state relief.
According to Richard Lazarus, when someone asks themselves, How can I deal with this potentially harmful
A) secondary B) primary C) tertiary D) minimal
His work influenced the contemporary work of interpersonal therapy (IPT)
A) Jung B) Freud C) Sullivan D) Beck
One similarity between popular and controversial adolescents is that they tend to have higher social ________ than rejected or neglected adolescents
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.