In a field study by Shultz and his colleagues (2007), several households in a neighborhood received weekly feedback about their level of energy consumption relative to their neighbors
Feedback about how much energy they used relative to their neighbors provided participants with ________ norms.
a. descriptive
b. injunctive
c. prescriptive
d. descriptive and injunctive
Answer: A
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a. We have more free will than Freud acknowledged, and we can choose to act and grow spontaneously. b. We are influenced by our experiences before age 5 more than by the future that holds our hopes and plans. c. To develop a theory of human personality, only the healthy, positive human qualities need to be studied. d. Freud paid too much attention to the psychologically healthy and emotionally mature, to the exclusion of the emotionally disturbed.
_______________ studied Samoan adolescents and came to the conclusion that they do not all share a stressful existence.
a. Louis Leakey b. Bronislaw Malinowski c. Claude Levi-Strauss d. Margaret Mead
Jim and John are both 17 and are 6 feet tall. What do we know about these young men and/or the timing of the growth spurt for each?
a. They both experienced the growth spurt early. b. They both experienced the growth spurt late. c. They are very likely to be biologically related. d. We know nothing about the growth spurt of these young men.
Herbie's customers paid for his funeral
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.