Tess begins to notice that when she cooks dinner for her boyfriend that includes dessert, he leaves soon after the meal is finished, whereas when she does not serve dessert, her boyfriend stays for the entire evening and watches television with her. Illustrating the law of effect, Tess:
A. enjoys her boyfriend's company so she stops making desserts all together.
B. likes dessert more than her boyfriend.
C. only invites her boyfriend over for dessert and not dinner.
D. wants her boyfriend to spend more time with her so she only makes dessert occasionally.
A. enjoys her boyfriend's company so she stops making desserts all together.
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a. conformity pressure. b. obedience pressure. c. cognitive dissonance. d. open-ended role conflict.
Which of the following is NOT true of a collaborating conflict resolution style?
a. It requires clarifying differences and similarities in positions in order to build on similarities. b. It entails splitting the difference between positions. c. It results in less postconflict residue of tension and resentment. d. It stresses the importance of criticizing ideas rather than the person.
One of the odd twists in the history of psychology is that Binet and Simon's test started out as a way to measure____________, but was adapted by others into a measure of ________________
A) academic achievement; innate intelligence B) innate intelligence; academic achievement C) chronological age; mental age D) mental age; chronological age
Research on brain differences in males and females has shown:
a. no differences in their brain structures. b. males use their hippocampus differently than females. c. males are more right-brained than females. d. females are more right-brained than males.