A New York City taxi cab driver once intervened and stopped what he perceived to be a mugging in progress—even though it actually was a group of actors performing a scene for a television sketch
The taxi driver probably intervened due to ________. a) the absence of the bystander effect
b) the fact that he is a New Yorker
c) his feelings of empathy
d) a high level of egoism
c
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There is evidence on the degree to which social interventions, biological interventions, and _____ interventions influence positive change and negative change, as we grow older.
A. sociocultural B. life-cycle C. psychological D. cross-linking.
Exorcism involves ____
a. increasing one's activity level so that, by becoming fit, a person's body can recover from a physical or mental illness b. chipping a hole in the skull of a person believed to be possessed by demons c. praying and chanting over or flogging and starving a person to cast evil spirits out of the body d. examining the brains of people who have severe mental disorders
Coherence refers to the
a. mental process by which readers create information during reading that is not explicitly stated in the text. b. principle that we process information in isolation before we link it to its context. c. mental process whereby ambiguity is resolved online during sentence reading. d. representation of the text in a reader's mind, so that information in one part of the text is related to information in another part of the text.
Sylvia used to play with balloons. When she tried to blow up a balloon last week, it popped in her face and gave her quite a scare. Now, blowing up a balloon is so scary that Sylvia will not try it
In this example, the pop is a(n) _____ and the balloon is a(n) _____. a. conditioned stimulus; unconditioned stimulus b. unconditioned stimulus; conditioned stimulus c. unconditioned response; conditioned response d. conditioned response, ; unconditioned response