The tendency for members of a tightly knit group to be more

concerned with preserving group solidarity and uniformity than with objectively evaluating all alternatives in a decision is characteristic of _____
a) the actor-observer effect.
b) social facilitation.
c) groupthink.
d) social loafing.

Answer: c

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knows that many of them differ with respect to education, socioeconomic status and religion. To equally distribute these differences across the four groups he will use in his study, Dr. Swaminathan should a. assign subjects to groups using a counterbalancing procedure. b. randomly assign subjects to the groups. c. provide operational definitions for education, socioeconomic status, and religion. d. design the study so the effects of these variables on personality can also be measured. e. provide a valid operational definition of the dependent variable.

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What is the difference between experience-expectant and experience-dependent development?

What will be an ideal response?

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