Fourteen-year-old James is trying to eat three pounds of hamburger at one sitting. He looks around at his friends who are watching and laughing and thinks, "They'll think I'm a loser if I can't eat all of this meat." James is obtaining self-related information from
A) social comparison.
B) the looking-glass self.
C) intermodal perception.
D) self-reflection.
B) the looking-glass self.
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Relational cohesion theory, like cognitive dissonance theory, argues that people tend to become more committed to their groups when the group causes members to experience negative, rather than positive, emotions.
a. True b. False
The cumulative record also contains short, vertical lines near the top of the record. These lines indicate
a. reinforcers delivered manually. b. the occurrence of behaviors other than bar presses. c. pauses in bar pressing that were longer than 10 seconds. d. changes in Action Strength.
In 1917, Lewis Terman recommended that no one with an IQ below _____ be accepted as police or firefighters
A. 70 B. 80 C. 90 D. 100
Which one of the following would be most likely to establish that a test is grounded in psychological theory?
a. The correlation between test score and external criteria b. The correlation between the test scores of the same people at two different points in time c. A high coefficient alpha from a test of internal consistency d. Evidence of validity based on the test’s relationship with other constructs