Barbiturates are generally considered to be ______.

William is a police officer who is instructed by a superior officer to beat a subject in order to obtain a confession. According to research done on obedience, William is more likely to disobey this order if:

A) the superior officer is in the room with William and the suspect. B) another senior officer agrees that William should beat the subject. C) the suspect asks William to stop. D) William sees another police officer refuse to continue beating the subject.

Suppose that on the first day of your psychology class, you observe a particular classmate

to be a bit rude and arrogant. You attribute his conceit to his personality rather than to the fact that something happened that may have upset him. Your attribution about the causes of his behavior is an example of the a. principle of consensus. b. actor-observer effect. c. phenomenon known as belief in a just world. d. fundamental attribution error. e. false consensus error.