A landlord refuses to rent his vacant apartment to college students. He believes that students throw wild parties and disturb others. In the context of behavior, the landlord's refusal is an example of _____
A) effort justification
B) discrimination
C) selective exposure
D) social loafing
B
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One of the earliest purveyors of the behavioral model was ________, who noted that cognitive or mental processes have no place in the scientific study of psychology.
a. John Watson b. Rosalie Rayner c. Thorndike d. B.F. Skinner
Latane, Williams, and Harkins, in their classic study of social loafing,
a. discovered loafing was eliminated when groups set clear goals. b. manipulated the indefinability of each member by having groups work in a dark room. c. distinguished between productivity losses due to loafing and losses due to lack of coordination. d. examined how rapidly people working in a pickle factory packed pickles. e. concluded that cognitive dissonance was a primary cause of social loafing.
Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?
a. It is vivid memory for emotional events. b. It is vivid, highly accurate memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event. c. It is memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but not necessarily accurate over time. d. It is vivid, highly accurate memory for emotional events.
Learned helplessness is characteristic of someone with a(n) __________ locus of control
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