Bystanders frequently fail to respond to an emergency because no one else is responding. We tend to rely on what others say and do when we are not sure of the nature of the situation or of what behaviors to engage in. This is known as ________
A) diffusion of responsibility
B) the altruistic personality effect
C) pluralistic ignorance
D) selective altruism
E) the implicit bystander effect
Answer: C
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Cross culturally, infants older than 6 months are cared for most often by their ______
a. mothers b. fathers c. older female siblings d. grandparents
Looking at words across languages, researchers have found that:
A. all languages use the same words so that each word in one language corresponds to a single word in each other language. B. there is very little overlap in word meanings across languages so that every language describes the world in arbitrarily different ways. C. languages differ somewhat in the contents of their lexicons, and also in their preferred ways of describing elements in the world. D. regardless of content and frequency differences in the lexicons across languages, children are not sensitive to these differences until they enter school.