You've always disliked a particular coworker who strikes you as dishonest, but he is nice to you and does you favors, so you become friendly with him despite your misgivings. One day you learn that he stole personal items from your desk. You now decide to discontinue the friendship. Your negative attitude toward this coworker is strengthened through __________.
A. operant conditioning
B. instrumental learning
C. classical conditioning
D. reduction of cognitive dissonance
Answer: D
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Which of the following statements is correct concerning the biases against women in the health-care system?
a. Women are less likely than men to have full-time employment, so their schedules are more flexible and they are more likely to participate in medical research. b. Important medical research that has implications for women's lives has often excluded females from the research population. c. Women are often depicted in medical textbooks, creating the impression that women are sick, rather than healthy. d. Women experience substantial discrimination in applying to medical school.
Some sex differences in gross motor activity in early childhood have been found. However, these differences
a. are not as large as differences between individual children. b. disappear by age 7. c. are attributed to genetics. d. are attributed to environmental causes.
Which type of psychologist studies the behavior of people at work as well as their behavior within the structure and culture of each particular business or company?
a. industrial/organizational b. environmental c. comparative d. sociological
Which theory of emotion proposes that stimuli cause physiological changes in our bodies and emotions result directly from those physiological changes?
A) Cannon-Bard B) James-Lange C) two-factor theory of emotion D) emotional dialect