A sick role is a type of:
Social Norm
When comedy shows use "laugh tracks", where each joke is followed by a sound of the audience laughing, we are more likely to laugh ourselves. Which of the following concepts does this illustrate?
Conformity.
MULTIPLE ANSWER - THIS QUESTION MAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER] Which of the following conditions would you expect to have an impact on reducing obedience rates in the Milgram experiment compared to those that he originally reported?
Having the learner be in the same room but still strapped to a machine.
Correct answer:Having the researcher momentarily leave the room to go to the bathroom.
Conducting the experiment entirely with women.
As a concept, the "common knowledge effect" is most similar to:
Perceptual confirmation
Physician empathy _______________ with positive treatment outcome.
Positively correlates
Prefrontal cortex is to ___________ as hippocampus is to _______________.
Goal directed behaviour; episodic memory.
You observe a friend of yours yelling at the teller at the bank. Sadly, this is not the first time you've seen your friend yelling at this bank teller, though she doesn't usually seem to yell at other people outside this bank. Wondering if this is something about the bank's customer service, you look online and find that the reviews for the bank are very positive, and nobody normally seems to have a negative experience here. Based on this, what attributions would you likely draw about your friend's behaviour?
High consistency, low consensus, and high distinctiveness
When groups get together for discussions, their decisions tend to be more extreme than any one member would have made alone. This phenomenon is known as:
group polarization
Stress Inoculation Training is to Reframing as:
Aerobic exercise is to defensive copin
Professor Anderson believes that Mary's failing grade on the examination was due to her having three other examinations that day. Professor Anderson is making a:
situational attribution
Which person is MOST likely to react most strongly to stressful situations?
a person who cannot escape from the situation
[MULTIPLE ANSWER - THIS QUESTION MAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER] Which of the below statement fit the definition of reframing as a stress control technique?
Julie reduces her anxiety about public speaking by imagining that she is evaluating her audience.
A new marketing firm has been hired to start a campaign for an energy drink. During the design meetings, the team was often more concerned with getting along than being critical of ideas. When the marketing strategy was finalized and launched, it was ridiculed and ultimately failed to increase sales. This story illustrates the concept of:
Norepinephrine
The disturbing state that arises when people recognize the inconsistency of their actions, attitudes, or beliefs is called:
cognitive dissonance
Which of the following brain regions would you expect to undergo the most change with extensive mindfulness meditation practice?
Prefrontal cortex.
In the context of the prisoner's dilemma, which result benefits you the most relative to your partner?
You defect, your partner cooperates
"They? They all like to hurt people!". This sentiment describes which phenomenon?
Outgroup homogeneity.
Although Alexander is careful to treat all of his employees fairly, he secretly feels that those who graduated from the Sauder business school are more easily employable than those who graduated from rival schools. This illustrates:
prejudice
Which of the following would NOT be a useful method for reducing groupthink?
Emphasizing that the group’s decision is unlikely to have negative consequences.
While spending time with friends at a mall, you overhear a person shouting extremely negative opinions about immigrants, attempting to persuade the crowd to support tighter border controls. On the basis of this, how is your own opinion on immigration likely to change?
It depends on whether or not you believe the person shouting is an in-group member.
When faced with a stressor, people report that the level of stress is ___________ when they perceive that ________________.
greatest; they cannot control stressful events
Which “message card” would be most effective in normatively influencing hotel guests to reuse their bathroom towels?
“Seventy-five percent of our guests use their towels more than once.”
Which of these are catecholamines?
epinephrine and norepinephrine
The enduring piece of knowledge about an object or event is called a(n):
belief
Which person would be expected to have the lowest levels of anger, depression, and stress?
Julie, who walks briskly for 30 minutes five times per week