Changing one's behavior just because other people are nearby is the gentlest form of social influence and is called

a. obedience.
b. conformity.
c. passive compliance.
d. mere presence.


D

Psychology

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a. ineffective encoding. b. motivated forgetting. c. time decay. d. proactive interference.

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Self modeling often involves

a. participant modeling. b. vicarious extinction. c. video editing. d. awareness training.

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Growth is a(n)

A. change to a higher level of function B. increase in physical size C. innate change to a higher level of functioning D. regression or progression in physical size

Psychology

When a researcher assigns participants to either an

experimental or a control group based on their last names, systematic differences between groups are created before the experiment even begins. This is a confounding variable referred to as _____ a) observer bias. b) participant bias. c) selection bias. d) assignment bias.

Psychology