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Question 2:

Being open-minded means ____________.
a) finding something to love in everyone
b) being able to agree with most people
c) being easily persuaded
d) being able to set aside your beliefs and consider those of someone else.
e) having no set opinions

Question 3:

Empathy consists of ______________.
a) perspective taking
b) emothional contagion
c) concern
d) a, b, and c
e) a and c only

Question 4:

Louis has a bad cold. His head feels stuffy and his body aches. He is having trouble concentrating in class. Louis's cold is an example of which of the following influences on perception?
a) psychological influences
b) social influences
c) gender roles
d) cultural influences
e) physiological influences

Question 5:

What we chose to pay attention to is influenced by ____________.
a) the intensity of the stimulus
b) contrast or change in the stimulus
c) our motives
d) our emotional state
e) all of the above

Question 6:

Generalizations are always wrong because they always lead to stereotypes.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

Research cited in the text showed that perceptions of pictures were not significatnly influenced by the mood of the perceivers.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Research has shown that there is no correlation between the degree of empathy an individual exhibits and his or her tendency to commit violent crimes.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

When an instructor sees a group of students on the first day of class as motivated and interested in learning, he or she is generalizing.
a) True
b) False

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