______________ are simple rules that reduce mental effort and allow us to make decisions or judgments quickly.

A teacher who wants to reduce prejudice in her classroom and promote acceptance and harmony assigns the students to complete group projects where the final grade is dependent on each group member completing their assigned task. The teacher is utilizing what technique?

A form of social influence that involves direct requests from one person to another person is called:

Helping behavior is more likely to take place in ________than in ________ settings.

Children in the blue eye/brown eye experiment, described in the beginning of the chapter, demonstrated prejudice as a result of influence from their teacher as well as from the intolerant culture in which they lived. Which of the following perspectives best highlights the influence from both the immediate environment and society?

During her childhood, Holly sees that her mother disapproves of same-sex marriages. Through watching her mother, Holly ends up adopting a similar viewpoint. This could be considered an example of what type of learning?

A parent hits a child for misbehaving and then later on that child hits his sibling for breaking a toy. Assuming the child hit his sibling because he was imitating his parent’s behavior, this would be an example of ______________.

A(n)________leader rewards good behavior, but ultimately only takes action when something goes wrong.

Subjects are told at the beginning of a study as much information as possible so that they can determine if they would like to participate. This is termed _______________.

In an experimental research design, the group that does not receive the main treatment, and is used for comparison to the treatment group is called ____________.