Emotions
Stress
Social Thinking
Social Influence
Social Relations
100
These are the 3 factors that influence emotion
What are expressive behaviors, conscious experience, & physiological arousal.
100
According to Kelly McGonigal, stress is only bad for you, if this is true.
What is you believe stress is bad for you.
100
Feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in particular ways to objects, people, and events.
What are attitudes.
100
_______ asked people to identify which of three comparison lines was identical to a standard line. His research was designed to study ______.
Who is Asch? What is conformity?
100
An overgeneralized idea about a group of people.
What is a stereotype?
200
According to the two-factor theory, _________ fuels emotion and __________ channels it.
What is arousal and cognition
200
As you are waiting to be interviewed for a job, your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate begin to increase. These physiological changes are produced by activation of the ________ nervous system.
What is sympathetic.
200
When no weapons of mass destruction were found following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, some Americans revised their memories of the main rationale for going to war to help alleviate this.
What is cognitive dissonance.
200
According to ________, the most fundamental lesson to be learned from his study of obedience is that even ordinary people, who are not usually hostile, can become agents of destruction.
Who is Milgram?
200
These are the 4 factors of attraction.
What are: o Physical attraction o Similarity o Proximity o Reciprocal liking
300
Lee was momentarily terrified as a passing automobile nearly sideswiped his car. When one of his passengers joked that he almost had a two-color car, Lee laughed uncontrollably. Lee's emotional volatility best illustrates this.
What is the spill-over effect.
300
What is the HPA axis? What does it do during times of stress?
o Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal gland axis o Adrenal gland releases cortisol & epinephrine o Pituitary gland releases oxytocin
300
A person's behavior is most likely to be consistent with his or her attitudes in these three instances.
o Outside influences are minimal o We are very aware of our attitudes o The attitudes are relevant to the behavior
300
Norman Triplett observed that adolescents wound a fishing reel faster in the presence of someone working simultaneously on the same task. This best illustrates _________.
Social facilitation
300
A readiness to assume that enslaved people deserve the terrible treatment they receive best illustrates this.
What is the just-world phenomenon
400
Cassandra's mother told her, “You know you are in love when your heart beats fast and you experience that unique trembling feeling inside.” This remark best illustrates this theory of emotion.
What is the James-Lange Theory of Emotion.
400
Chronic stress increases neural connections in this area of the brain, while activity & neurogenesis decreases in this brain area.
What is the amygdala & the hippocampus.
400
When a salesperson visits your home and asks you to try a free sample of a cleaning fluid, you agree. When he returns the following week and asks you to purchase an assortment of expensive cleaning products, you make the purchase. The salesperson appears to have made effective use of this.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon
400
Individuals who believe that the death penalty should be abolished meet to discuss the issue. Research on group interaction suggests that after discussion the individuals’ beliefs will now be _____________.
even more convinced that the death penalty should be abolished
400
Following 9/11, some outraged people lashed out at innocent Arab-Americans. This venting of hostility can best be explained in terms of this theory.
What is the scapegoat theory?
500
According to the ________, you would be able to experience emotion even without sympathetic nervous system arousal.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory.
500
Draw a chart representing Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) and describe the three phases.
o Phase 1. Alarm reaction (mobilize resources) o Phase 2. Resistance (cope with stressor) o Phase 3. Exhaustion (reserves depleted)
500
Carol is restless during class because her teacher's distressed facial expressions lead her to believe that he dislikes teaching. The teacher, on the other hand, is distressed because he sees Carol's restlessness as an indication that she lacks any motivation to learn. Both the student and teacher should be informed of the dangers of this.
What is fundamental attribution theory
500
Individuals who are normally law-abiding may vandalize and loot when they become part of a mob. This change in behavior is best understood in terms of this.
What is deindividuation?
500
During a Girl Scout picnic, Lavinia was randomly selected to be on one baseball team and Carla on the opposing team. Before the game started, Lavinia and Carla were each convinced that their own team was the better one. The girls' beliefs best illustrate this.
What is ingroup bias?
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