Author Question: Ingham and colleagues (1974) asked participants to pull on a rope and found that participants pulled ... (Read 227 times)

natalie2426 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Ingham and colleagues (1974) asked participants to pull on a rope and found that participants pulled almost 20 percent harder when they thought they were pulling alone than when they thought they were part of a group. This finding best illustrates

a. social loafing.
b. a social dilemma.
c. groupthink.
d. social facilitation.

Question 2

Benny wants to adopt both the hot and cold perspectives in his research on why married couples get divorced. Which description best exemplifies his approach?

a. He wants to understand what motivates people to stay in marriages that they know from past experience willonly get worse.
b. He wants to study the difference between passive and active aggression in marriages.
c. He wants to investigate how spur-of-the-moment marriage problems are solved relative to ongoing problems.
d. He wants to determine whether simple factors, such as mismatches in attitudes, can predict breakups betterthan communication patterns.