Which topic has been of the MOST interest to social psychologists during the last 30 years?
a. Social cognitionconcerned with how people think about other people and how people think about the social world in general
b. Behaviorismconcerne d with basic principles of learning such as reward and punishment
c. The idea that modern life makes people vulnerable to alienation and exploitation
d. The idea that people act less on the basis of firm moral principles than they do on the basis of conformity, or following the crowd
Question 2
Emotions are both positive and negative. Once people experience both types of emotion, they generally try to orchestrate their lives to maximize the experience of positive emotion and minimize the experience of negative emotion. This pattern illustrates that emotions provide ____.
a. a feedback system
b. enrichment to life
c. the intent for criminal behavior
d. a motive for creative behavior
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