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Human cognition, language and social norms are especially complex, so animal findings may not generalise accurately."},{"text":"Humans and animals have identical cognition, language and social norms.","correct":false,"explanation":"Assuming identical psychological capacities overlooks major species differences. 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Exposure to Western television socially modelled disordered eating and thin ideals, supporting an environmental nurture explanation."},{"text":"Western TV biologically triggered eating disorders in Fijian girls.","correct":false,"explanation":"The study did not demonstrate a biological trigger or diagnose all participants with disorders. It showed that Western television socially modelled disordered eating behaviours."},{"text":"Western TV reduced concerns about body image in Fijian girls.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the observed pattern, as body-image concerns and disordered eating increased following television exposure. Western media provided models for these attitudes and behaviours."}]},{"id":"a4a1de7f-ed12-4566-9c00-560079499c66","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"What does biological preparedness explain in fear conditioning?","back":"Humans condition fears to evolutionary threats faster.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Humans condition fears to evolutionary threats faster.","correct":true,"explanation":"Biological preparedness means humans are predisposed to associate ancestral dangers, such as snakes or heights, with fear because this tendency aided survival."},{"text":"Humans condition fears to modern technological threats faster.","correct":false,"explanation":"Preparedness concerns dangers faced repeatedly during human evolution, not newer hazards such as electrical sockets. 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Conditioning occurs more readily for evolutionary threats that historically presented dangers to survival."}]},{"id":"f9e3eafd-4797-4d0d-b0ef-61c073c33ba6","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Social control regulates behaviour to enforce [ ] and maintain [ ].","back":"Social control regulates behaviour to enforce conformity and maintain order.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Social control regulates behaviour to enforce conformity and maintain order.","correct":true,"explanation":"Social control uses formal or informal pressures to encourage conformity with accepted rules, helping society or institutions preserve stability and order."},{"text":"Social control regulates behaviour to enforce individuality and maintain order.","correct":false,"explanation":"Social control limits rather than enforces individuality because it pressures people to follow shared expectations. Its purpose is to enforce conformity and maintain order."},{"text":"Social control regulates behaviour to enforce conformity and maintain deviance.","correct":false,"explanation":"Deviance is behaviour that social control generally seeks to reduce, not maintain. It regulates behaviour to enforce conformity and preserve social order."},{"text":"Social control regulates behaviour to enforce independence and maintain conflict.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses both functions of social control. It encourages conformity rather than independence and seeks to maintain order rather than ongoing conflict."}]},{"id":"5453a345-bdf9-4c86-874b-80b037c307da","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"In token economies, what are tokens used as?","back":"Secondary reinforcers exchanged for primary reinforcers.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Secondary reinforcers exchanged for primary reinforcers.","correct":true,"explanation":"Tokens acquire value through learning because they can be exchanged for primary reinforcers or valued rewards, so they function as secondary reinforcers."},{"text":"Primary reinforcers exchanged for secondary reinforcers.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the relationship. 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Tokens gain their reinforcing value through association, making them secondary reinforcers."}]},{"id":"77e34300-fa84-43f9-babb-4ad564ab8eab","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why can prison token economies be unethical social control?","back":"Staff can use basic rights as rewards to force compliance.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Staff can use basic rights as rewards to force compliance.","correct":true,"explanation":"Withholding food, privacy or other basic rights until prisoners comply makes participation coercive, allowing staff to control behaviour through ethically unacceptable deprivation."},{"text":"Staff can use optional luxuries as rewards to encourage autonomy.","correct":false,"explanation":"Offering genuinely optional luxuries does not capture the central ethical concern. Token economies become coercive when staff withhold basic rights to force prisoner compliance."},{"text":"Prisoners can use basic rights as rewards to control staff.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the institutional power relationship. Staff control access to rewards and may unethically make prisoners earn basic rights in exchange for compliance."},{"text":"Staff can use earned tokens as punishments to prevent compliance.","correct":false,"explanation":"Tokens are normally reinforcement for desired behaviour, not punishment intended to prevent compliance. The ethical concern is that staff may make basic rights conditional on obedience."}]},{"id":"66b45f35-a678-43d9-b8a9-b5070edc6347","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is Bandura’s media aggression research socially sensitive?","back":"It can justify censorship and blame parents or media creators.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can justify censorship and blame parents or media creators.","correct":true,"explanation":"If media violence is presented as causing aggression, findings may support restrictions on content and attach responsibility or blame to parents and media producers."},{"text":"It can justify media freedom and absolve parents or media creators.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the likely social consequences. 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