Studies like Bandura’s bobo doll experiment demonstrate the…
Studies like Bandura’s bobo doll experiment demonstrate the importance of observational learning. For example, watching someone behave aggressively increases the salience of aggression-related concepts. This demonstrates the power of:
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Alvin is meeting another student for the first time to work on a class project. Instantly, when Alvin meets this student, he vaguely reminds him of his good friend MarK. Alvin immediately gets the feeling that he is going to get along well with this new student. What process has just occurred?
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In 2003, the newly released policy of Affirmative Action encouraged providing more educational and work opportunities for underrepresented populations such as racial minority groups and women. _____ is a tendency to express negative biases against a racial outgroup by rejecting social policies like Affirmative Action that may be seen as benefiting that group.
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David has the belief that most women fail to appreciate all that men do for them. This is an example of _____, which results in the pairing of contentious beliefs about women with benevolent but patronizing beliefs about them.
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Psychology is full of historically related events that have influenced sociocultural and political decisions for decades. For example, the Greenberg text describes the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Challenger disaster as examples of:
Read DetailsJanelle was eating dinner at a restaurant and her some peopl…
Janelle was eating dinner at a restaurant and her some people discussing the positive impact of drinking matcha tea in preventing many illnesses. She is initially not persuaded by this information because she is not confident that those people were well-informed. However, several weeks later Janelle can no longer remember the source of this information but does remember the idea that matcha tea consumption may be linked to lower rates of serious illness. Since Janelle forgot the source of the information, she may be vulnerable to the:
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