Imagine that you are leaving a parking space and another driver who is waiting to take the space is honking to pressure you to leave faster. As a result, you start moving even more slowly
Which of the following would best explain your behavior?
A) norm of reciprocity
B) need for approval
C) social validation
D) reactance theory
Answer: D
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a) Average IQ performance since the 1930s has risen. b) Parents with lower IQs tend to have more children than the national average. c) The education of children is related to the diet of the mother during pregnancy. d) Larger families are more likely to have twins who are more likely to have similar IQs.
The person whose work has most greatly contributed to our understanding of the way grammar works is ______
a. Harry Harlow c. Louis P. Leakey b. George Lakoff d. Noam Chomsky
Karen Horney believed that the helplessness that children feel develops from all of the following except:
A. disturbances in early relationships. B. instinctual conflicts. C. family environments. D. events and people in the child's culture.
Why would Muzafer Sherif (1936) study conformity by projecting a light on the wall of a darkened room?
A) Because of the autokinetic effect, he created an ambiguous stimulus. B) He wondered whether sensory deprivation made people more susceptible to conformity pressures. C) He wanted a stimulus that was not ambiguous. D) He didn't want participants to see and therefore influence one another. E) He wanted to study the effects of anonymity on people's conformity.