What term refers to helping behavior that is performed voluntarily for the benefit of another person, with no anticipation of reward?

Which of the following statements is an example of a situational attribution?

Your neighbor, a social worker, asks you if you would volunteer to counsel delinquent youths at a detention center for a year. When you refuse, she asks you if you could supervise the youths during a trip to the zoo. Your neighbor is using the __________ technique.

In what way does the study of the collisions of very high-speed nuclear particles with other matter at particle accelerator laboratories help in the understanding of the early universe?

After we have decided that a certain event is a stressor, we must decide how we will deal with it and what resources are available for coping with the stressor. This process is called __________.

Which three terms are used to describe the way in which hardy people differ from many Type A people and others who suffer more ill effects due to stress?

“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” your young son asks frantically. “Can we please buy a new PlayStation®4 console with all of the games and the wireless controllers so that we don’t have to sit near the television?” “No,” you reply, “we can’t afford to buy all of that!” Seemingly unperturbed by your rejection, your son comes back with “Then can we just buy one new game for our PlayStation®3?” “Okay, I guess so,” you answer, not realizing that your precocious son has taken a social psychology class and has just used the __________ technique to get what he wants.

The stress resulting from the need to change and adapt to the dominant or majority culture is called __________.

What term do psychologists use for how physically close two people are to each other?

Which of the following was a finding in the classic study of cognitive dissonance by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)?