Professor Axelrod is interested in the effects of physical attractiveness on how others interpret the appearance and behaviors of attractive versus unattractive people. Professor Axelrod is most likely to be interested in

a. attribution theory.
b. lie detection.
c. social perception.
d. social encoding.

Answer: C

Psychology

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Which of the following research questions would be best examined by a questionnaire?

a. What is the rate of alcohol use of high school students? b. What are the cognitive abilities of a 3-year-old? c. How does damage to the brain affect one's cognitive and behavioral abilities? d. How do antidepressant drugs minimize depressive symptoms?

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Which of the following statements is true?

a. The person–situation debate has nothing to do with the person–situation interaction. b. The person–situation debate was resolved by concluding that both the person and the situation have about equal influence, and the person and situation also interact to predict behavior. c. The person–situation interaction has, over recent decades, turned into the person–situation debate. d. The person–situation debate is now best understood as the situation–person debate.

Psychology