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Your roommate, Leeland, has been spending too much time playing video games and partying during the week.  His grades are starting to drop and he may not be accepted into his major as a result. Leeland excuses his behavior because his closest friends are doing the same thing. According to the Theory of Planned Behavior, Leeland is unlikely to change his behavior because he…

Section 1: Le futur proche Conjugue le verbe au futur proche. Demain, je (aller) _________________________ à Paris.

True or false? The foot-in-the-door tactic starts with a small request to create initial commitment. Once that initial commitment is created, profiteers can move on to a variety of large requests, some of which are only remotely related to the original small request. 

You are done with your learning check! To make you smile, here is a pic of my previous foster kitties. Please be sure to review the weekly announcement to help you plan and pace yourself for the following week. Keep up the hard work.

People are most likely to form behaviorally based attitudes when the initial attitude is ________ and there are no ________ justifications for the behavior .

It could be argued that participants in Muzafer Sherif’s (1936) study converged in their estimates of the amount of movement of a point of light because they were avoiding public embarrassment or social censure from other participants. Sherif demonstrated that this was unlikely when he found similar results

The Ben Franklin effect would predict that you would most like someone ________ , whereas behaviorist theories would predict that you would most like someone ________ .

In a series of studies by Solomon Asch (1951, 1956), when participants judged the lengths of lines alone rather than in a group of confederates, their judgments were accurate about 99 percent of the time. Still, when other participants made judgments in a group of people who gave the wrong answers, they reported incorrect judgments. These findings suggest that

When a profiteer attempts to create the sense of obligation in you by giving you a free gift, they are hoping to exploit the principle of…

At the new-car dealership, Josh asks the salesperson a number of questions: “How good is the gas mileage on this model? What does Consumer Reports say about this make and model? Does this car hold its resale value?” The ________ component of Josh’s attitude toward the car is most likely to inform his questions.