The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception
They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. Which group of participants spent more time looking at people in the periphery?
a. people from a Western culture
b. people from an Eastern culture
c. women more so than men
d. people from New World cultures
Answer: B
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a. subtyping. b. illusory correlations. c. stereotype threat. d. in group favoritism.
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b. Some producers argue that viewers don't want to watch safe sex scenes in porn. c. Some producers argue that scenes with condoms take too long to shoot. d. All of these
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b. have weaker eating control than older females and males. c. objectified by fashion designers and gay men. d. naturally more likely to suffer from "nervous stomach" disorders than other groups.
Which of the following is true concerning Accelerated Learning techniques?
A) Playing classical music for students appears to increase their rates of learning. B) Asking students to visualize information that they are learning appears to increase their rates of learning. C) Students who employ relaxed breathing techniques appear to learn more quickly than those students who do not use these techniques. D) Research concerning suggestive learning techniques does not provide strong evidence supporting the effectiveness of these techniques.