You want to give away a perfectly good sofa—for free—but no one will take it, even when you offer to deliver it
Then you leave it out on the curb, and it disappears overnight. What might best explain the behavior of others who did or did not take the sofa?
a. learned helplessness
b. reactance
c. decidophobia
d. depression
B
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Arithmetic average is to _____ as score occurring with the greatest frequency is to _____
a. mean; median b. median; mode c. mean; mode d. mode; median
Early studies of brain damage indicated that patients who lacked the ability to easily understand spoken language often had damage to:
a. an area known as Broca's area b. the right side of the brain c. an area known as Wernicke's area d. the cerebellum
Norms usually do NOT
a. apply only to certain group members. b. apply to all group members. c. exist in unwritten form. d. exist in written form.
When children were randomly assigned to watch either a violent film or an exciting film about bicycle racing and then played floor hockey (Josephson, 1987), children who
A) had never been aggressive became the most aggressive after watching the violent film. B) watched the violent film used physical aggression, but not verbal aggression. C) watched the bicycle race became frustrated and actually behaved more aggressively. D) were aggressive to begin with and watched the violent film were the most aggressive. E) watched the violent film used verbal aggression, but not physical aggression.