Based on information from the authors of your text about cognitive dissonance and immoral behavior, which of the following people would be most likely to condone having an extramarital affair?
a. Sarah, who is not married
b. Jessie, who cheated on her husband long ago, but didn't get caught
c. Laura, who is faithful to her husband
d. any of these
Answer: B
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a. a drop in electrical charge below the resting potential. b. the capacity of our brains to change in response to experience. c. the simplest behavior, in which a stimulus provokes an automatic response. d. a nerve impulse jumping from gap to gap in the myelin layer.
The physicians of the Nancy School
a. opposed the use of hypnotism. b. demonstrated the power of suggestion. c. found that hypnotism was not effective in the treatment of any mental illnesses. d. believed that hysteria was the result of brain degeneration.
Jean Mandler in her studies of children's stories, suggests that two types of story representations are present. They are:
A) what is intuitive and what is imagined B) what a child imagines and what a child tells C) what a child knows and how that knowledge is organized D) what is unusual and what is natural E) none of the above
Which of the following statements is true of concrete-operational children?
A. They are more egocentric than preoperational children. B. They have the decentration capacity to allow them to seriate in two dimensions. C. They fail to understand the principles of conservation and class inclusion. D. They focus on intangible ideas instead of tangible objects.