When you meet a new person, stereotypes typically serve to ____
a. establish what you want that person to be like
b. warn you about problems or dangers that the individual presents
c. guide the assumptions that you have about the individual—which you will hold on to no matter what
d. provide you with hypotheses to be tested about that individual
D
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A. Lawrence Kohlberg B. Jean Piaget C. Carol Gilligan D. Albert Bandura
An important potential problem with using symbols to represent a problem is that
a. people typically use at least twice as many symbols as they need. b. people usually construct a hierarchical tree diagram, even though they intended to use symbols. c. people insert the symbols into the wrong matrix. d. people have trouble translating words into the appropriate symbols.
Holding a variable constant prevents a participant characteristic from becoming a confound by ____
a. eliminating variability in that characteristic b. reducing error c. ensuring a nonbiased sample d. increasing the differences between the groups
Parents who don't spend much time with their children, showing little physical affection, were associated with ___________ attachment among their kids
a) secure b) avoidant c) ambivalent d) difficult