What Determined Whether College Freshmen Who Had Been Randomly Paired

question 52

Multiple Choice

What determined whether college freshmen who had been randomly paired for a Welcome Week dance liked each other?

• A) similarity in attitudes
• B) similarity in intelligence
• C) physical attractiveness
• D) self-disclosure skills

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Definitions:

Extinction

Within psychology, the process where a conditioned response slowly diminishes and eventually ceases when the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus is no longer made.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with learned responses.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behavior and outcomes of others, a fundamental component of social learning theory.

Albert Bandura

A psychologist known for his work on social learning theory and the concept of self-efficacy.