When members of another social group represent a threat to an individual's security or comfort, the resultant prejudice is termed prejudice
a. personal
b. institutional
c. stereotyped
d. reference group
ANSWER: a
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a. ?pupil b. ?iris c. ?retina d. ?cornea
Which of the following statements matches findings related to pornography and sexuality?
a. In Denmark where pornography has been legal since the 1960s, there are high rates of rape and sexual violence. b. In Japan where pornography is sold freely and dominated by rape and bondage scenes, lower rates of rape are reported than those in the U.S. c. Women in societies that forbid or repress pornography tend to have more positions of power and be held in higher esteem than in countries that have few restrictions on pornography. d. A study of four countries found that as the availability of pornography increases, the rates of rape and other sexual crimes increases rapidly.
In their imagery study, Finke and Pinker presented a four-dot display briefly to participants. After a two-second delay, participants then saw an arrow, and their task was to indicate whether the arrow would have pointed to any of the dots in the previous display. The significance of their results was they called into question the explanation of imagery
a. epiphenomenon b. depictive representation c. spatial representation d. tacit-knowledge
The human eye has about ________ rods
A) 125 million B) 7 million C) 10 million D) 145 million E) 90 million