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Solomon Asch’s classic social influence research found that when under pressure from the group, about 37% of the subjects ignored their own perception of the line length and went along with the group’s judgment of the line lengths:

People are most likely to report higher levels of happiness in life if they:

Omar told the same joke over and over to various friends.  Initially, each time he told the joke, the friends laughed, serving as a reward for his telling of the joke.  But after a while, the friends stopped laughing at the joke. Omar eventually stopped telling this specific joke. This is an example of:

Fred was in a hurry one day and decided to park his car in the designated handicapped space while he ran into the grocery store to buy a few items. When he returned to his car he found that he had been issued a $200 parking ticket. Now, even when it’s raining, Fred never parks in the handicapped space. This example best illustrates ____________________.

Emily ate lunch at Taco Town. Moments after leaving the restaurant, she became very sick for several hours, apparently, the result of food poisoning. Now, whenever she passes a Taco Town restaurant or even sees one of their TV commercials, she begins to feel distinctly nauseated. This example best illustrates ____________________.

In a demonstration considered highly unethical by modern standards, John Watson and his colleague Rosalie Rayner used a loud, terrifying gong sound to condition 11-month-old Albert to fear:

In the classic Three Stage Memory Theory, the stage of memory that holds an image (and afterimage) of a stimulus for a brief time — just long enough for it to be recognized and selected for higher memory processing — is known as _______________ memory.

Which of the following is NOT one of the explanations for why we forget discussed in the text?

According to Irving Janis, groupthink is likely to occur when members of a decision-making group:

What is the value of sum after this code sequence is executed?