A. deindividuation
B. the bystander effect
C. the mere exposure effect
D. hindsight bias
Related Mcqs:
- Ms. Sadaf, a recent stroke victim, cannot consciously perceive the large book on the coffee table in front of her Yet, when urged to identify the book, she correctly reads aloud the printed title on the book cover. Her response best illustrates:
A. Synesthesia
B. Blindsight
C. Subliminal perception
D. The McGurk effect - Farida was informed by a professional palm reader. “You generally communicate openly with others, but you have certain dark secrets that even your closest friends could never guess.” The fact that Farida was impressed by the palm reader’s insight into her personality best illustrates:
A. the Barnum effect
B. the spotlight effect
C. the self-reference phenomenon
D. unconditional positive regard - Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 1 & 3 - In experiments, placing subjects in experimental groups such that each subject has an equal probability of ending up in any experimental group is referred to as:
A. random forecasting
B. fandom selection
C. random placement
D. random assignment - The experimental procedure in which both the experimenter and subject are unaware of who is in the experimental and who is in the control group is referred to as the:
A. single-blind procedure
B. the type of experiment is not possible
C. stereotaxic procedure
D. double-blind procedure - Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Salim didn’t perceive a word her husband was saying. Her experience best illustrates:
A. Perceptual adaptation
B. Relative clarity
C. Change blindness
D. The cocktail party effect - The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:
A. Feature detection.
B. Bottom-up processing
C. Pre-attentive processing
D. The phi phenomenon - It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates:
A. belief perseverance
B. the farming effect
C. the representativeness heuristic
D. linguistic determinism - Sixteen-year-old Foster wants to spend a few years experimenting with different lifestyles and careers before he settles on who and want he wants to be foster’s behavior illustrates the identity status of:
A. identity moratorium
B. identity foreclosure
C. identity achievement
D. identity diffusion - The corrupt behavior of many ordinary people who served as Nazi concentration camp guards best illustrates that immorality often results from:
A. crystallized intelligence
B. social influence
C. abnormal cognitive development
D. postconventional moral thinking