Hypnosis has been shown to be most effective in helping clients to
a. change subjective experiences.
b. quit smoking.
c. stop overeating.
d. remember past instances of child abuse.
ANSWER: a
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Which of the following is a situation in which deception would be considered justified according to the American Psychological Association?
A. A researcher wants to determine if telling people that they are homosexual increases their chances of dropping out of college, so participants are randomly assigned to be told that they are either heterosexual or homosexual based on a personality test and then followed for one year to determine if they quit college. B. A researcher decides that it will take too much time to describe the true purpose of his study to participants, so he requests the use of deception. C. A researcher wants to determine if social isolation impacts tendency to donate to charity, so participants are randomly assigned to be left out of an online ball-passing game while being told that the game is just about cooperation. D. In order to determine if a drug causes seizures, participants are unknowingly given a drug dissolved in juice that they think they are consuming for a taste-comparison task.
The area of social psychology called "social influence" studies
a. attitude formulation. b. the ways in which people are attracted to each other. c. the ways in which people are influenced by random events in society. d. the ways people influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of others.
The two broad forms of therapy are ____
a. ?biomedical therapy and psychiatry b. ?humanistic therapy and psychoanalysis c. ?biomedical therapy and psychotherapy d. ?insight therapy and behavior therapy
According to your text, the success of the foot-in-the-door tactic may be attributed to the likelihood that
A) complying with the initial request changes people's self-images. B) complying with the subsequent request changes people's attitudes. C) the initial request causes a desire for contrast. D) the subsequent request causes a desire for assimilation.