With regard to attitude change and persuasion, the attractiveness, fame, and power of the person who is presenting the persuasive message are all examples of:
a. peripheral characteristics
b. operant characteristics
c. central characteristics
d. source characteristics
D
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__________ conducted a series of experiments to find out how many people would resist immoral requests made by authority figures
a. Stanley Milgram c. Leon Festinger b. Solomon Asch d. George Steinbrenner
In an experiment by Adams, subjects were initially provided with information that would help them solve riddles. Which theoretical concept explains why problem-oriented acquisition of this information was better than fact-oriented acquisition?
a. elaboration c. transfer-appropriate processing b. levels-of-processing d. distinctiveness
When he received his Psychology 101 exam back in class, Martin was somewhat satisfied to learn that he got an 84% , or a grade of "B". Strangely, however, when he learned that the class average was an 87%,
he started to feel less satisfaction with his own results. This type of comparison and its impact on our feelings about ourselves, is called __________. a. the adaptation-level phenomenon b. masking c. relative deprivation d. subjective well-being
What percent of African American male newlyweds married outside their race in 2010?
A) 4% B) 14% C) 24% D) 44%