Which social psychology theory best explains the fact that the majority of the riots that took place following the trial of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King did not take place in White neighborhoods, but rather in the neighborhoods
of Asian Americans and Asians who had recently immigrated to the United States?
a. scapegoating
b. social diffusion
c. the bystander intervention problem
d. prejudice
e. groupthink
a. scapegoating
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a. they do not help to establish a causal relationship. b. they tend to be low on internal validity. c. the need to ensure psychological realism to maintain external validity. d. they do not involve random assignment.
Daryl Bem's self-perception theory suggests that we form attitudes about an object based more on our ________ toward that object than our ________ toward that object
a. behavior; thoughts and feelings b. thoughts and feelings; behavior c. beliefs; past experience d. social group's behavior; own behavior