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Hazel is a psychologist who just conducted a Milgram-style obedience study. In her version, the experimenter identified herself as an undergraduate doing her senior thesis. The teacher and learner were seated in the same room facing each other. The experimenter stood watching just over the teacher’s shoulder. The teacher had to physically place the learner’s hand on a shock plate to punish them when they did not follow instructions. A second teacher (a confederate) was present and refused to obey the experimenter when the voltage reached halfway to the maximum. All of the following changes to the scenario above would tend to increase the probability of participants showing obedience EXCEPT:

Dan is waiting for the elevator in the Psychology Building. When the door opens, he sees two other individuals already in the elevator. Weirdly, both of the other individuals are facing the opposite direction as would be normal (i.e., they’re both facing the back of the elevator rather than the front where the door opens). Dan isn’t quite sure what to do, but he decides that he too should face the back of the elevator. Which of the following changes to the scenario above would tend to DECREASE the probability that Dan would conform and face the back of the elevator?

What was not presented as a possible influence on personality?

Although congenitally blind individuals have never seen another human being’s facial expressions, they nonetheless tend make the same basic set of facial expressions when they are angry, happy, sad, and disgusted as sighted individuals. This is often taken as evidence in favor of the ________________.

Suppose a 3×5 matrix A has rank r = 3. Then the equation Ax = b always has [a]

Personality is likely to _____ as people grow older.

Jay is a vision scientist. In one of his lab rooms, he has a single spotlight in the far-right corner. The right side of the room is thus well lit. But as you move further to the left in the room, it is progressively less well lit. He places three pieces of paper in the room: one on the far right (labeled A), one in the middle (labeled B), and one on the far left (labeled C). He then measures how many units of light are being reflected off each piece of paper. He finds that each paper is reflecting exactly 30 units of light (top panel in image below). If he then moves the pieces of paper into the sunlight, where they are all lit by EXACTLY the same amount of light (bottom panel below). When he measures how much light they are reflecting, which of the following is the most likely order, from MOST light reflected to LEAST light reflected?

Individuals who react to stress with _________ are considerably more likely to develop heart-related problems than individuals who react to stress in other ways.

Trevor holds the stereotypical belief that Canadians are modest, straightforward, trusting, good-natured, forgiving, and helpful. Which of the Big 5 personality dimensions does Trevor believe Canadians are uniformly HIGH in?

According to Kennan, why must principles for foreign policy be articulated by leadership and not be decided by the political process or legal declaration?