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Thomas is scrupulously honest when it comes to not cheating on his tests and papers, but when a cashier accidentally gives him back too much change, he is likely to keep the extra money. A social psychologist would most likely say that Thomas’s behavior 

A(n) _________ is a brief description of the research that is presented in a professional APA-format paper.

All of the following are external environmental factors except __________.

The major difference between experiments and other research methods is that experiments involve

Polymorphic loci (locations) closely linked to a gene are known as _______________________.

Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest lecturer was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person. The visitor then lectured for twenty minutes, and behaved in a very arrogant way during the lecture. When students evaluated the lecturer,

Based on the study by Shariff and Norenzayan (2007) presented in your text, if you pass by several churches, then a block or so later a homeless person asks you for change, how are you likely to behave?

It’s Halloween, but you don’t want to be running back and forth to answer the door. To avoid any “tricks,” you decide to leave a large container of candy on the porch. You’ve just read about self-awareness theory, and you have a hunch about how to keep greedy trick-or-treaters from taking more than their fair share of the candy. You decide to

Mr. Smith is a client newly admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital. The PMHNP on call at the facility plans to perform the initial intake assessment and diagnostic process. Mr. Johnson asks to please talk in his room because, he says “People make me nervous”. His room is at the end of the hallway and is the farthest from the nurses station. The PMHNP’s actions should be based on awareness that the best location to do the assessment is;

Joe is 14 months old and has Down syndrome. His treatment goals include increasing the use of vocalizations, gestures, and gaze to communicate. His clinician decides to first target his use of gaze until he includes looking at his communication partner in his communicative attempts 70% of the time. Then, the clinician will target vocalizations until he includes a vocalization in 70% of his communicative attempts. At that point, the clinician will target increasing his use of gestures. What intervention goal attack strategy is the clinician using?