On her way to visiting Malaysia for the first time, Joan wonders what the people there will expect from her during their interactions. Joan is concerned about
a. dispositional praise
b. prosocial behavior.
c. altruism.
d. social roles.
d
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Jurors in criminal trials often fail to fully discount coerced confessions. In what sense can the fundamental attribution error explain this tendency? a. People often overlook the situational factors that lead others to commit criminal acts. b. We tend to think that no situational influences could be strong enough to lead someone to confess to somethingthey did not do
c. Jurors usually think that false confessions result from certain personality characteristics, such as passivity orlack of education. d. Few people think that they themselves would ever admit to a crime they did not commit.
Systematic replication of an experiment tests
a. external validity b. construct validity c. statistical validity d. all of these
When rejected children are asked to enter a group of unfamiliar children already at play, they typically
a. passively watch as their peers play. b. make casual statements about the children in the group or about what they are doing. c. join in by trying to dominate the activities. d. attempt to join in by disrupting the activities.
With respect to the goals of psychology, descriptions must stick to perceivable information, whereas explanations deliberately go beyond what can be observed
a. true b. false