In the sidewalk experiment, various numbers of people stood on a busy New York City street and, on cue, began looking at a sixth-floor window across the street. Soon many of the people walking on the street stopped and looked up at the window. Which of the following factors tended to sway the most people to stop and look up at the window?
a. a larger influencing group
b. a smaller influencing group
c. a better-dressed influencing group
d. a younger influencing group
A
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a. are discouraged. b. are reinforced. c. occur more often in lower socioeconomic families. d. are random and unpredictable.
_____ refers to judgments about what gender roles in a particular culture ought to be
a) Gender role socialization b) Gender differentiation c) Gender role ideology d) Gender diversity
According to your text, which hormone has been implicated by neuroscientists in empathy and prosodies behaviors?
a. oxytocin b. cortical c. estrogen d. testosterone
One study attempting to detect dissociative identity disorder, had patients view words and pictures and then recall the stimuli when they were either experiencing dissociation or not. Results suggested
A) some types of learning do not transfer between alter identities. B) dissociated individuals are unable to engage in memory tasks. C) dissociation episodes tend to wipe the memory of anything learned prior to the dissociation episode. D) people recalled the same amount of stimuli regardless of their dissociation state at learning or recall.