As Mentioned in the Text, a Yale Researcher (Cohen, 1962)

question 1

Multiple Choice

As mentioned in the text, a Yale researcher (Cohen, 1962) conducted research at a time when the local police were very unpopular with the students.He paid some students relatively little and other students relatively more to write an essay that contradicted their true beliefs about the local police, with whom the student body had experienced unpleasant run-ins.Results of this experiment were noteworthy because they demonstrated that

• A) students offered money thought they were being bribed.
• B) counterattitudinal advocacy can affect beliefs about things that really matter.
• C) behaviors in the world outside the laboratory often contradict previous findings.
• D) in the world outside the laboratory, it is very difficult to change people's beliefs about things that matter.

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Definitions:

Heterozygous Dihybrid

An individual possessing two different alleles for two traits, resulting from the cross of parents differing in two specific traits.

Genotype

The genetic constitution of an organism, determining specific characteristics by encoding instructions for proteins.

AaMm

Represents a genotype consisting of two different alleles, Aa, for one trait and two different alleles, Mm, for another trait, indicating a hybrid individual.

Dominant Allele

An allele that expresses its phenotype even in the presence of a different (recessive) allele at the same genetic locus in a heterozygote.