When pairs of participants played a competitive game, and researchers told one member of each pair that the other was either hostile or friendly, the players who were led to believe that their partner was hostile behaved ________
a. differently than players who were led to believe that their partner was friendly, and their partner's behavior actually became more hostile
b. differently than players who were led to believe that their partner was friendly, but their partner's behavior did not change
c. no differently than players who were led to believe that their partner was friendly, and their partner's behavior did not change
d. no differently than players who were led to believe that their partner was friendly, but their partner's behavior actually became more hostile
Answer: a
You might also like to view...
Raymond has a psychological disorder, and his doctor has prescribed benzodiazepines to reduce the severity of Raymond's symptoms. In this case, Raymond most likely has:
a. schizophrenia b. an anxiety disorder c. depression d. bipolar disorder
Which of the following is true regarding the reliability of diagnostic classification?
a. Reliability provides us with important information about treatment and prognosis. b. Reliability is very similar across the diagnostic categories of the DSM-IV-TR. c. Reliability may vary between research- and non-research-oriented assessment contexts. d. If clinicians use structured diagnostic interviews, the reliability of diagnosis is assured.
What is the second of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
A) The sensorimotor stage B) The formal operational stage C) The concrete operational stage D) The preoperational stage
The theory of unconscious inference includes the
A. oblique effect. B. likelihood principle. C. principle of componential recovery. D. principle of speech segmentation.