Conformity occurs when people

A) change their behaviour as a result of receiving a persuasive argument.
B) change their behaviour as a result of observational learning.
C) follow direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority.
D) yield to real or imagined social pressure.

______ emphasizes the role of constitutional factors over the role of learning in the acquisition of abilities and tendencies.

A) Behaviorism
B) Empiricism
C) Nativism
D) Functionalism

Many young adults wait to have children until they have completed their education and established their careers.

When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone. What happens?

A) sensory fatigue
B) subliminal perception
C) habituation
D) perceptual defense

Depressants _____ whereas stimulants _____.

A) slow down central-nervous-system activity/increase central-nervous-system activity
B) increase central-nervous-system activity/slow down central-nervous-system activity
C) modify a person's perceptual experience/slow down central-nervous-system activity
D) slow down central-nervous-system activity/modify a person's perceptual experience

Which of the following is activated when we experience negative social emotions,such as disgust?

A) sympathetic division of the ANS
B) insula
C) amygdala
D) left frontal lobe