Describe three ways in which feelings are measured.What are the pros and cons of each method?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Self-report: pro is that people know best what they are feeling; con is that people may not want or be able to report their true feelings.Observing behavior:pro is that it avoids the problems with self-report; con is that behavior can be controlled to mask emotions, and people with the same emotion may not exhibit the same facial expressions.Physiological (blood pressure, heart rate, etc.): pro is that these responses are often more difficult to control then overt behaviors; con is that people may have different biological responses to the same emotions.
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Asch's line-judging studies on conformity found that conformity declined when ____
a. groups were closer in age rather than diverse b. a "dissenter" in the group always gave anincorrect response c. a "dissenter" in the group always gave the correct response d. groups were mixed-sex rather than all-male
Stress reactions can involve all of the following processes EXCEPT
a. Physiological b. Behavioral c. Cognitive d. Distal Risk Factors
_____________ refers to a situation when a particular characteristic allows an organism to be more reproductively successful, causing the characteristic to become more prevalent
a. Natural selection b. Darwinism c. Artificial selection d. Mutation
Which of the following statements is true of the scientific method
What will be an ideal response?