Social loafing involves:
a. a tendency to exert less effort when working in a group, compared to working alone
b. impaired performance when an individual performs in the presence of others
c. a tendency to seek consensus and ignore or suppress dissenting points of view
d. a reluctance to come to the aid of someone in need, when other people are present
A
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Which of the following statements about eating disorders and related problems is true?
a. A person with anorexia nervosa refuses to maintain 70% of expected body weight. b. More than 98% of the people with bulimia are females. c. An estimated 10-20% of adolescent and young adult females develop bulimia. d. Some dieters become so focused on food that they may be tempted to binge.
The theory of unconscious inference includes the
a. oblique effect. b. likelihood principle. c. principle of componential recovery. d. principle of speech segmentation.
Margaret Floy Washburn, Wilhelm Wundt, and Edward Titchener conducted research according to a:
a. behavioral approach b. gestalt approach c. functionalist approach d. structuralist approach
In a short-term memory task, chess masters organized a view of a chess board in terms of recognizable patterns rather than individual pieces. The technique being used is:
a. chunking b. method of loci c. transfer appropriate processing d. distributed practice