After a group of gang members learned that their friend had died in a seemingly random accident, several of the friends started blaming a rival gang for the death. Even though there was no evidence whatsoever that the death had been intentional, the more the friends talked the more passionate they became in their belief that an act of revenge was necessary. What concept from social psychology may contribute to an act of violent revenge in this case?
a. social influence
b. prosocial behavior
c. altruism
d. groupthink
e. social loafing
d. groupthink
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Counterregulation is best described as the ____ effect
a. "what the heck" b. "I am monitoring myself better than you are" c. "monkey says monkey do" d. "I knew it all along"
Polly gets a piece of dust in her eye but is still able to drive, despite having to blink a lot. Her ability to maintain a visual image of the road is due to:
A. short-term memory B. iconic memory C. semantic memory D. eidetic memory
Jane is a manager in a call center that is experiencing problems with employees spending too much time interacting among themselves when they should be helping customers. Jane could decrease the time interacting by making the work environment more sociofugal.
a. True b. False
In which type of distribution will the lowest scores be found on the lower left-hand side of the X axis?
a. In any distribution b. Only in a normal distribution c. Only in a positively skewed distribution d. Only in a negatively skewed distribution