Given the research on violence in the mass media and viewer aggression, which conclusion is MOST accurate?
With regard to roles, human beings tend to ____.
With regard to roles, human beings tend to ____.
You are trying to persuade your mother to lend you some mone…
You are trying to persuade your mother to lend you some money. You decide to make your attack in the evening, when she will be tired and distracted. This evening strategy is likely to be effective (assuming your mother is not in a bad mood) because in the evening she will be more likely than usual to rely on the ____ system, which will in turn ____.
Research indicates that Facebook users tend to be ____ than…
Research indicates that Facebook users tend to be ____ than nonusers.
As described in the text, the elaboration likelihood model i…
As described in the text, the elaboration likelihood model is almost identical to another model, known as ____.
Suppose that Person X and Person Y live close to one another…
Suppose that Person X and Person Y live close to one another, and run into one another nearly every day. Compared to most people, their chances of becoming friends are ____ and their chances of becoming enemies are ____.
Suppose that you are interested in knowing whether there ar…
Suppose that you are interested in knowing whether there are gender differences in suicide (i.e., whether one gender commits suicide more frequently than the other). The only way to study this precise question would be to conduct ____.
As discussed in the textbook, people are most likely to base…
As discussed in the textbook, people are most likely to base their stereotypes of a given outgroup on ____.
Suppose that you and your family are moving to a new apartme…
Suppose that you and your family are moving to a new apartment. Because your little brother has an excellent memory for things in general, he is put in charge of remembering what is packed with what. Because your mother usually takes care of bill payment, she is put in charge of remembering with what companies your family needs to file a change-of-address form. And because you have been the one handling most of the logistics of the move (hiring a company to inspect the new apartment for termites, making sure that you received your deposit back on your old apartment, etc.), you are put in charge of keeping track of these things. This is an example of ____.
A number of social psychological studies have made use of th…
A number of social psychological studies have made use of the autokinetic effect in order to understand ____.