Children of authoritarian parents are more likely to become bullies.

One block to problem solving can be mindless behavior, which is ______.

Which of the following is an example of an erroneous belief that may arise through subjective, non-scientific hypothesis testing?

Marlow was a bouncer at the local bar, The Pit.  The Pit was famous for keeping venomous snakes in tanks throughout the bar.  The snakes had been defanged, but this was not known.  The owner wanted people to be afraid of the snakes, because he thought it added to the mystique of the bar. On Friday night, while working as a bouncer, Marlow approached a man, Bill, who was getting drunk and rowdy at The Pit.  Marlow asked Bill to calm down, and he also told the bartender to cut the man off from ordering any more drinks that evening. In his drunken state, Bill took a swing at Marlow, who reacted by blocking the blow with his left arm.  Unfortunately, Marlow’s arm made contact with a plate sitting on the bar, which flipped and drenched the nearby guest Gus with the chili nachos that had been on that plate.  Other people sitting at the bar jumped away from the altercation between Bill and Marlow, and one of the patrons knocked over a glass aquarium housing a rattlesnake.  The snake started rattling its tail, and several people ran, pushing and stumbling over each other.  Several people were injured. Marlow put Bill into an armlock and escorted him out of the bar.  He may have pushed just a little once he got Bill outside, and Bill tripped.  Being drunk, he couldn’t regain his balance.  He fell on the ground, and split his lip. Unknown to anyone at the Pit, Bill had planted a secret recording device in the bar area of The Pit before he had been thrown out that night.  About a month later, Bill played footage from an argument that had taken place at The Pit between a husband and wife who were getting divorced.  During the argument, the wife made several comments that were true but embarrassing, concerning facts of a personal and private nature about the husband.  Bill published the footage on his YouTube channel and made more than $10,000 in royalties from the views his video earned. Discuss.

You’re taking a personality test that contains 567 simple true/false statements such as “I like to sew.”  Which of the following tests is this?

Machines R Us sold new and used machinery stored discarded machinery, pending sale for scrap, on a large vacant area it owned. This area was unfenced and was one-quarter mile from the housing development where Timmy, a 10-year-old boy, lived. Machines R Us knew that children frequently played in this area and on the machinery. Timmy’s parents had directed him not to play on the machinery because it was dangerous. One day Timmy was playing on a press in Machines R Us’s storage area. The press had several wheels, each geared to the other. Timmy climbed on the largest wheel, which was about five feet in diameter. Timmy’s weight caused the wheel to rotate, his foot was caught between two wheels that were set into motion, and he was severely injured. A claim for relief was asserted by Timmy through a duly appointed guardian. Machines R Us denied liability and pleaded Timmy’s contributory fault as a defense. In determining whether Machines R Us breached a duty to Timmy, which of the following is the most significant?

To locate a missing receipt that Dennis knows he put in a file, Dennis systematically goes through each of the folders he uses, starting with A and working his way toward Z. This search procedure most closely resembles which of the following problem-solving strategies?

To avoid the possibility that confirmation bias may lead us to perceive an illusory correlation, we need to focus on which of the following?

Which of the following is the correct ordering of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, from bottom to top?

Sonya, who wants to go to the beach, pouts and whines when her friends decide to go to a movie instead. Sonya’s behavior most closely resembles which of the following defense mechanisms?