The idea that regular interactions among members of different groups reduce prejudice, so long as the interactions occur under favorable conditions, is known as ____
a. realistic conflict theory
b. the acquaintance potential effect
c. the contact hypothesis
d. the perspective hypothesis
C
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When people are eating, social facilitation is more likely in ___ situations and less likely in ___ situations.
a. audience; alone b. alone; coaction c. audience; coaction d. coaction; audience e. alone; audience
Extrapyramidal symptoms, serious side effects of antipsychotic medications that occur in some patients with schizophrenia, are similar to the symptoms of a. Alzheimer's disease. b. Parkinson's disease. c. multiple sclerosis
d. leukemia.
The major goal of insight therapies is to give people:
A) feedback from their biologically controlled responses. B) help in understanding perceptual processes. C) basic training in observational learning and practice. D) clearer understanding of their feelings, motivations, and actions.
Consider the study with extreme groups of third grade boys and girls that found a 50% difference in the number of fights between the group that watched almost no violent TV and the group that watched a lot of violent TV. About half of the subjects were located 10 years later. What were the results?
(a) there were no differences between the groups 10 years later (b) the boys who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, more aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not (c) the girls who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, more aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not (d) the girls who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, less aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not