Some adolescents drink because of ___________, in which they assume that everyone is drinking at high levels due to a few conspicuous examples

a. a consensus effect c. a false consensus effect
b. peer pressure d. retaliation

c

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How did Latané and Darley (1968) vary the number of bystanders in their experimental study of the effects of the number of witnesses exposed to an emergency?

a. They allowed participants to choose whether to participate in a group or in a one-on-one discussion. b. They asked participants whether they would like to be engaged in a discussion with one, three, or six other individuals. c. Participants who arrived first were assigned to a large group condition, and those who arrived later were assigned to a small group condition. d. They randomly assigned participants to one of three conditions: several witnesses, few witnesses, or one witness.

Psychology

A shared limitation of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, the Hassles Scale, and the Uplifts Scale is

A) poor "real-life" generalization. B) the possibility of memory bias. C) not factoring in individual differences. D) an inability to differentiate between the impact of positive and negative life events.

Psychology