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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.1 for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Frances Eales, Steve Oakes and Louis Harrison from Pearson Education

Question

  1. You are going to listen to a lecture about an experiment to test people's behaviour. Look at the posters. What do you think the experiment was about?
  2. -
  3. Listen again. Complete the summary using no more than three words for each answer.
  4. Listen to Part 2 and answer the questions.

Answer

a)

The experiment was about how visual images affect people's behaviour in terms of honesty.

c)

  1. are being watched
  2. are unobserved
  3. an experiment / a recent experiment
  4. psychology
  5. belief
  6. an honesty box
  7. changed / alternated the image
  8. more honest
  9. three times

d)

  1. So that we know if we are being watched.
  2. They behave less selfishly.
  3. They were surprised.
  4. A poster of faces or eyes could be used for the warnings about speed cameras instead of a picture of a camera.
  5. Near CCTV cameras in town centres.