What is defined as a program of shared rules or norms that govern the behavior of people in a society, as well as a set of shared values and beliefs?

a. Nation
b. Culture
c. Statute
d. Expectation


Answer: b

Psychology

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That people sometimes see what they either "want to see" or "expect to see" BEST reflects the text's unifying theme that

a. heredity and environment jointly influence behavior. b. behavior is shaped by cultural heritage. c. people's experience of the world is empirical. d. people's experience of the world is highly subjective.

Psychology

The initial experiment with a compound CS (Exercise 6) showed that the amount of conditioning of each of the component CSs was approximately half that of the compound CS. Which aspect of the overexpectation experiment (Exercise 9) best parallels that earlier finding?

a. The essentially equal amounts of conditioning of each of the CSs when they were paired separately with the US before being combined (Stage 1) b. The high amount of conditioning of the compound CS when it was first presented (Stage 3) c. The fact that the amount of conditioning of the compound CS changed very little across the trials in which it was paired with the US (Stage 3) d. The essentially equal amounts of conditioning of each of the CSs when they were presented separately in extinction after having been compounded (Stage 4)

Psychology

Dr. Dawson's research program is concerned with how a person's experience changes as the intensity of a sound is increased. Dawson is studying

a. psychophysics. b. subliminal perception. c. perceptual constancy. d. extrasensory perception. e. parapsychology.

Psychology

A _________ stimulus is one that consists of two or more stimuli presented simultaneously

a. conjugal b. complex c. concordant d. compound

Psychology