In a study by Crocker and colleagues (Crocker, Joekl, Testa & Major, 1991) African American college students completed a questionnaire about themselves and were told that a Caucasian student would evaluate their information
either with knowledge about the participants race or with no knowledge. When participants thought their race was unknown to the evaluator:
a. they disregarded all feedback information and instead asked the experimenter for feedback.
b. only negative feedback was influential and positive feedback was ignored.
c. both positive and negative feedback influenced participants' self-esteem in predictable ways (i.e., positive feedback increased self-esteem and negative feedback decreased self-esteem).
d. positive feedback and negative feedback influenced participants' self-esteem in unpredictable ways (i.e., positive feedback decreased self-esteem and negative feedback was disregarded).
c
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. Analytic intelligence b. Creative intelligence c. Practical intelligence d. Interpersonal intelligence
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A. It is probably accurate, which explains why the human nervous system contains over one hundred billion neurons. B. Research has found that specificity encoding does occur for lower animals, such as dogs and cats, but has not found this phenomenon to exist in human beings. C. It is unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the world to have a separate neuron for each. D. Specificity coding is one of the areas that is only theoretical and not applied, and thus there is no way to know if it truly exists in human beings.