Asuni hears her neighbor's burglar alarm go off in the middle of the night, but she doesn't call the police because she assumes that one of the other neighbors will do so. Asuni's failure to call the police is the result of
a. pluralistic ignorance.
b. audience inhibition.
c. diffusion of responsibility.
d. stimulus overload.
c
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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a. kidneys b. liver c. pancreas d. pituitary gland
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a. a slower process than phonetic recognition. b. common in inexperienced readers. c. most likely to occur with familiar words. d. a bottom-up process. e. most useful for languages that have few irregularities.