Suppose You Are Responsible for Planning the Initiation of New

question 16

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are responsible for planning the initiation of new members to a group to which you belong. Generalizing from Aronson and Mills's study on the effects of initiation on liking of the group, you would do well to make the initiation process:

• A) difficult or unpleasant.
• B) easy and pleasant.
• C) closely resemble the activities of the group.
• D) very different from the regular activities in which the group engages.

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Definitions:

State-dependent Memory

The phenomenon where information learned in a particular state of consciousness is more easily recalled when in that same state of consciousness.

Drug Influence

The impact that the consumption of drugs can have on an individual's physical and mental health, behavior, and decision-making capabilities.

Implicit Memory

The type of memory involved in performing tasks without conscious awareness of the previously learned processes.

Priming

A technique in psychology used to train people's memory both in positive and negative ways by presenting them with a stimulus and then using it to influence their response to another stimulus.