In Solomon Asch's 1955 study on conformity, although the answer to the problem was obvious, 37% of the participants gave the incorrect answer at least once when _____________.*
a. others in the group gave the correct answer
b. others in the group gave the incorrect answer later
c. others in the group gave the incorrect answer first
d. others in the group said "I don't know"
c
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Suicide in which the individual is not insane and is aware of what he or she is doing is called __________
a. altruistic b. anomic c. rational d. dramaturgical e. cluster
Carmen entered the first grade when she was still five years old, and she did not turn six until December. Roxanne turned six the summer before the first grade started. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Carmen will progress more slowly than Roxanne in reading and math. b. Carmen and Roxanne will make similar magnitudes of gains in reading and math. c. Carmen will progress more slowly than Roxanne in reading, but they will show similar gains in math. d. Carmen will gain less than if she had been placed in kindergarten instead of first grade.
After the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many people come forward and said that they knew that the levees in New Orleans should have been built stronger, and that they just knew that a catastrophe like this was coming
In research this is known as the __________. a. false consensus effect b. hindsight bias c. critical error d. empirical fallacy
Pain cries can usually be differentiated from basic or mad cries by their
A. intensity. B. sudden onset. C. time of occurrence. D. relationship to REM.