Researchers discovered that many ministers who supported desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas did not use their pulpits to air their (unpopular) views for fear of losing contributions and church members

This is a real world example of the power of ________ to exacerbate prejudice and discrimination.
a. social censure
b. informational conformity
c. normative conformity
d. attitude ambivalence


Answer: C

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A. women returning to school B. declining health of the population C. women joining the workforce D. increased sex education in elementary school

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In the Original Source Material, Wundt states that ,"the law of psychical resultants expresses a principle that is the opposite of the principle of creative synthesis".?

a. True b. False

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a. ?autistic spectrum disorder b. ?schizophrenia c. ?attention deficit hyperactivity disorder d. ?separation anxiety disorder

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An important contribution to the field of psychology resulting from Wilhelm Wundt founding his laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879 was

a. the rise of behaviorism's popularity and the decline of both structuralism and functionalism. b. recognizing 1879 as "the birthday of cognitive science." c. producing PhDs who later established psychology departments at other schools, including some in the United States. d. the first demonstration of the forgetting curve and the introduction of the reaction time paradigm.

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