White people who are prejudiced against blacks, but externally motivated to respond without prejudice, tend to behave in unprejudiced ways when trying to look good or say the right thing in the presence of others. Right after being released from such pressure, they ____
a. tend to continue to behave in unprejudiced ways
b. tend to behave in their (default) prejudiced way
c. tend to respond with a backlash and actually express more prejudice than usual
d. are unpredictable—sometime behaving in extremely prejudiced ways, and sometimes behaving in extremely unprejudiced ways
C
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a. ineffective because it tends to confuse people. b. ineffective because it seems ambivalent. c. always ineffective. d. almost always effective. e. effective when the counter-argument is refuted.
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A. causes particular emotions to be experienced B. results from the movements of facial muscles C. creates the need for an explanation D. cannot be cognitively appraised
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a. dopamine b. endorphins c. serotonin d. GABA
Which perspective on language development accounts for children's unique utterances and the unusual grammatical mistakes they make in speaking?
A. the nativist perspective B. the learning perspective C. the interactionist perspective D. the universal perspective