A social psychologist thinks that people are more likely to conform to a large crowd than to a single person. To test this hypothesis, the social psychologist had either one person or five persons stand on a busy walking path on campus and look up
The psychologist stood nearby and counted the number of people passing by who also looked up. The size of the group is the ________ variable.
a. dependent
b. extraneous
c. correlational
d. independent
D. Conformity depends on the size of the group.
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After rushing to catch the bus, when you find a seat and begin to relax, the return to your normal heart rate is under the influence of the
a. central nervous system. b. parasympathetic branch. c. sympathetic branch. d. somatic nervous system.
When determining location of a sound, we use ___________ for low frequencies and ___________ for high frequencies
a. phase differences; intensity differences b. intensity differences; phase differences c. loudness differences; intensity differences d. loudness differences; phase differences