Those who assert their freedom by refusing to yield to conformity pressures best illustrate

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This article argues that personal autonomy and individual self-determination are products not of a specific region or historically based culture, but of recent developments in industrialization, urbanization, transportation, communications, information processing and education. These have already occurred in many non-Western states, often resulting in greater emphasis on human rights. The article also finds nothing inherently "Western" in liberal values and personal freedoms: until recently, most of us lived under communitarian constraints that would have made the Ayatollah Khomeini feel perfectly at home.

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1.Which branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people

think about, influence, and relate to one another?

A)developmental psychology

B)social psychology

C)personality psychology

D)clinical psychology

2.Professor Szumski conducts research designed to identify persuasion strategies that

promote lasting changes in attitudes. Professor Szumski is most likely a ________

psychologist.

A)personality

B)clinical

C)social

D)biological

3.Attribution theory was designed to account for

A)the process of revealing intimate aspects of ourselves to others.

B)the impact of both heredity and environment on social behavior.

C)the loss of self-awareness that occurs in group situations.

D)how people explain others' behavior.

4.Attribution theory suggests that we tend to attribute others' behavior either to their

A)heredity or their environment.

B)biological motives or their psychological motives.

C)thoughts or their emotions.

D) dispositions or their situations.

5.Ksana insists that her boyfriend's car accident resulted from his carelessness. Her

explanation for the accident provides an example of

A)a situational attribution.

B)cognitive dissonance.

C)the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

D)a dispositional attribution.

6.Monica sees Laurena, who is normally shy, give a speech in class with confidence.

Monica therefore attributes Laurena's behavior to the course requirement. Monica's

explanation for Laurena's behavior is an example of

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