Your text discusses the value of cooperation and working together to solve the social dilemma of environmental problems. Yet, there are ways to also use competition to improve the environment
Describe how competition can be used to promote behaviors that would improve the environment.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The text discusses a study in which Dutch factory workers were given feedback about how much energy they had conserved, and some workers received feedback comparing their unit to others. Social comparison led these workers to feel as though they could outperform the other unit and conserve more energy.
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Professor Falls wants to determine if there is a relationship between frequent hearing of a startle stimulus and hearing loss. He ran a regression and obtained an r value of .60. Which of the following best summarizes what this result means?
a. 60% of hearing loss is accounted for by frequency of hearing startle stimuli. b. 36% of the variability in hearing loss can be accounted for by variability in the hearing of startle stimuli. c. 36% of startle stimuli cause hearing loss. d. 60% of hearing loss is caused by startle stimuli.
Which of the following drugs are sometimes referred to as "solid alcohol"?
a. marijuana and hashish b. barbiturates and tranquilizers c. "crystal meth" and cocaine d. amphetamines and heroin
Kayla's friends worry about her terrible temper, especially when she is driving. Which of the following strategies would be most helpful for reducing Kayla's road rage?
A. encouraging her to express her feelings more regularly when she is not driving, as bottling up her anger leads to explosions B. imitating her behavior so she can see how ridiculous she looks C. encouraging her to see the humor in the driving behavior of others D. encouraging her to express her feelings verbally and with gestures so she can "let off some steam"
If all cultures were alike in terms of the color categories for which they provide names, this finding would __________ the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
a. unequivocally support b. partially support c. have no bearing on the truth or validity of d. be contrary to e. be unrelated to