Arthur Patterson (1974) studied the hostility levels of high school football players both one week before and one week after the football season. If engaging in socially acceptable aggressive behaviour like football reduces hostility, then the players' level of hostility should have

A) increased on the football field, but decreased in classes.
B) been dependent on personality variables.
C) increased over the duration of the playing season.
D) remained the same over the duration of the playing season.
E) decreased over the duration of the playing season.

E) decreased over the duration of the playing season.

Psychology

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An admissions director for a college decides to keep the existing admissions policy since 80% of the students admitted eventually graduate. Unknown to her, 90 percent of the rejected applicants would also have been successful graduates

Her decision- making process is hampered by ________. a. the representativeness heuristic b. the availability heuristic c. hill-climbing d. creating subgoals

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The degree to which people believe others pay attention to them is called

A) self-presentation. B) social anxiety. C) public self-consciousness. D) narcissism.

Psychology