City planners decide to institute a program whereby they will occasionally reward random bus riders with $100 gift certificates to the local grocery store. They are attempting to decrease pollution from individual cars by
A) intermittently reinforcing desirable alternative modes of transportation.
B) continuously reinforcing pro-environmental attitudes.
C) moving negative consequences into the present.
D) immediately punishing undesirable behavior.
Answer: A
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a. how children set up their secure bases. b. the Kewpie doll effect. c. why social referencing is done by young children. d. the long-term stability of attachment styles.
Students are more likely to do better in school if they believe that success is the result of
A) temporary situational factors such as how hard they work. B) societal biases. C) external causes over which they have no control. D) luck.
The Spotlight on Research study by Correll and colleagues demonstrated that stereotypes do not affect response tendencies during a shooting task
A) ?True. B) ?False.
Which of the following refers to processing a mental representation of a problem or situation?
a. intuition b. intelligence c. cognition d. selective attention