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Forensic Psychology - ANSWER-a field of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behavior as it relates to the law or legal system 3 categories of killers according to Browning (in Police Battalion 101 during the Holocaust) - ANSWER-1. Laggers 2. Accommodators 3. Evaders What do we turn to for explanation of the behavior of Police Battalion 101 killers? - ANSWER-Social psychology (personality psychology looked at people as individuals and not a group) Factors from social psych...

interrole conflict correct answer experience of conflict between expectations of two or more roles that are assumed simultaneously intrarole conflict correct answer experience of conflict between expectations within a given role Albert Bandura's theory correct answer Social learning theory Fritz Heider's balance theory correct answer Concerned with the balance of the individual in question, another individual, and a person/thing/or idea Cognitive dissonance correct answer Occurs wh...

GEN. PSYCH QZ QS- TEST 4 (FINAL) Milgram's studies on obedience (as well as other experimenters' replications) suggest that a. Situation factors do not influence the extend to which one obeys the directions of an authority figure b. Only people with weak personalities can be influenced by authority figures to act cruelly c. The extent to which people obey an authority figure is linked to both their gender and national origin d. Human cruelty can be committed by otherwise well-meaning ...

PSYC 140 - Final Exam Questions And Answers Latest Updated (100% VERIFIED) According to social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary, human beings have a fundamental psychological need to ________. excel belong compete achieveCorrect Ans:-belong When surveyed, over 87% of Americans reported that they preferred to spend significant periods of time without other people around. were married or wanted to be married. had a social media account. lived with other people.Correct Ans:-li...

PSYC Chapter 13 Written Exam Rated A+ 2024. 1. People tend to feel discomfort when their thoughts are inconsistent, and so they act to reduce that discomfort. This is known as: A. motivated forgetting. B. the fundamental attribution error. C. cognitive dissonance theory. D. the confirmation bias. C - CORRECT ANSWER Right Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: C Your C 2. The Stanford Prison Experiment consisted of male college students who volunteered to participate in a simulated prison...

Compliance to a large request is gained by preceding it with a very small request - Answer foot-in-the-door technique Influence stemming from the need for information in situations in which the correct action of judgement is uncertain. - Answer informational social influence The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's abilities and successful behaviors. - Answer false uniqueness effect A mode of group thinking that impairs decision making because the desire for grou...

Observational Research correct answersThe systematic process of recording the behavioral patterns of people, objects, and occurrences as they are witnessed. Advantages: - No distortion of self-report bias - No distortion of self-report due to memory - Nonverbal data may be obtained - Environmental may be recorded - High external validity Disadvantages: - No direct access to cognitive phenomenon (construct validity is weaker) - Interpretation of data may be a problem - Not all act...

PSY100 Midterm #1 UofT Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Empiricism - Answer- The view that knowledge comes from observed/sensory experience Empirical evidence - Answer- Refers to the data that has been collected (or the knowledge that has been gained) by scientific observation What is the role of theories? - Answer- Scientific theories typically explain the relationship between two or more variables. What must scientific theories be? - Answer- Testable, falsifiable, parsimonious Wha...

VCE Psychology Unit 2 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Attitude - Correct Answer ️️ -An evaluation or judgement (positive, negative or neutral) about an attitude object (person, place, thing, events). This is learnt, stable and relatively long lasting Tri-component model - Correct Answer ️️ -Theory that an attitude consists of cognitive, affective and behavioural components Behavioural Component - Correct Answer ️️ -A person's behaviour towards an attitude object Cognitive C...

Attitude - manner, disposition, feeling or position one holds with regard to a person or thing; a tendency or orientation, especially of the mind We cannot directly observe __________ - attitudes Consistency Theories - theories that deal with how our mind processes and/or categorizes information (stimuli) Even though the information we process relates in some way to information stored in our minds, it is _________ with the pattern (attitude) we already created - inconsistent Principl...