In a Field Study by Shultz and His Colleagues (2007),several

question 124

Multiple Choice

In a field study by Shultz and his colleagues (2007) ,several households in a neighborhood received weekly feedback about their level of energy consumption relative to their neighbors.Feedback about how much energy they used relative to their neighbors provided participants with ____.

• A)descriptive norms
• B)injunctive norms
• C)prescriptive norms
• D)descriptive and injunctive norms

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Definitions:

Reaction Time

The interval of time between the presentation of a stimulus and the initiation of the muscular response to that stimulus.

Stimulus Response

A concept in psychology that describes how an individual reacts to a stimulus; it's the basic unit of learning and behavior.

Unconditioned Response

A natural, automatic reaction to a stimulus that occurs without any prior learning or conditioning.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development where children gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.