According to the urban overload hypothesis, people in cities should be less likely to help than people in small towns because
a. people in small towns have grown up with more trusting attitudes.
b. people who live in cities are more likely to experience diffusion of responsibility.
c. people in small towns tend to be more religious.
d. people living in cities tend to keep to themselves.
Answer: D
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Which of the following statements concerning maternal and paternal influences is FALSE?
a. The different care giving styles of fathers and mothers have a major impact on children's gender role development. b. Mothers pay more visual attention to their children and are more tactile in interacting with their children than fathers are. c. Although fathers are spending more time with their children, mothers still do most of the nurturing and caretaking, especially of young children. d. Young children who spend a lot of time playing with their fathers tend to be more competent in many ways than those who do not.
Which theory would explain that infants love their mothers because their others feed them?
a. psychoanalytic theory c. cognitive developmental theory b. learning theory d. ethological theory