Stress has been shown to put people at a higher risk for __________.

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.

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

Tamika is beginning to realize that so-called “surprise quizzes” in her psychology class really aren’t too much of a surprise at all, since they tend to occur every week. Accordingly, she accepts that fact and regularly reviews the course material. This example BEST illustrates that __________.

Keion’s parents have been talking to him about the negative aspects of drugs ever since he was a youngster. Now that he is a teenager, he knows that some of his friends smoke marijuana. At a party one night, a friend offers Keion a joint. Keion declines the offer, stating that he hates drugs. Which method of attitude formation is involved here?

Edgar and Esther have been married for almost 50 years. Through it all, they have remained committed to each other and have been as close as two people can be. Over the years, the passion has waned but they still stayed together. Sternberg would call this type of love __________.

Stanley Milgram’s study of obedience took on a special importance in the wake of __________.

If the president says, “Everything in the war is going as planned. Trust me, I am the president,” he is using what form of the elaboration likelihood model?

“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.

__________ are habitual targets of displaced aggression.