Normally well-liked and accepted as a friend, a man now finds himself being excluded and ignored by his group because of he voiced opposition to a plan the group was formulating. The man is experiencing:
a. polarization
b. groupthink
c. ostracism
d. eclecticism
C
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Joe has collected data on the number of hours ten-year-olds spend watching television each week. He tells you that the distribution of scores followed a truly normal curve. Which of the following is suggested by Joe's statement?
a. ?Fifty percent of the scores fall below the mean. b. ?The mean, median, and mode are all different. c. ?Sixty percent of the scores fall within one standard deviation above and below the mean. d. ?Ten percent of the scores fall two standard deviations above the mean.
Learning the latest dance step by watching others on television is an example of which kind of learning?
a. classical conditioning. b. discovery learning. c. modeling. d. instrumental learning.
Which of the following determines whether a new response learned through modeling will be repeated?
a. whether the learner saw the behavior performed more than once b. whether the learner receives normal reinforcement or feedback for the modeled behavior c. whether the model praised the learner for observing the behavior and whether the learner reciprocated the reinforcement d. whether the learner observed the model in a real-life or filmed setting
The wide influence of the behavioral approach began to fade by the late ________, as its lack of attention to mental processes began to draw criticism.
A. 1920s B. 1940s C. 1060s D. 1980s