Ch. 10 Sec. 1
A behavior pattern that is characterized by impatience, time urgency, competitiveness, and hostility is called what?
Type A behavior
What can impair the immune system, leading to infectious diseases and chronic conditions such as hypertension, cancer, and heart disease?
Chronic/excessive stress
A culture in which the sense of self is tied to personal accomplishments is best described as what?
Individualistic
A preconceived opinion or atude about an issue, person, or group is known as what?
prejudice
A cognitive bias involving the predisposition to attribute more negative characteristics to members of out-groups than to those of in-groups is called what?
out-group negavism
Annoyances we commonly experience in our daily lives are called:
hassles
One recent finding about anger suggests what?
leads to heart problems
An assumption about the causes of behavior or events is a/an what?
attribution.
As a general rule, people find more attractive people to be what?
more intelligent.
A compliance technique based on obtaining a person’s initial agreement to purchase an item at a lower price before revealing hidden costs that raise the ultimate price is called the what?
lowball technique
Another term for the stress response that individuals experience when faced with a stressful situation is the?
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
The common term for a myocardial infarction is?
heart attack
A mental image or representation that we use to understand our social environment is known as what?
social schema
Which personality type has been found to be associated with the development of prejudice?
Authoritarian
The results of the Asch study revealed what?
People may conform more than they think they do.
A state of tension resulting from the presence of two or more competing goals or response tendencies that demand resolution is called what?
conflict
Tumors are often a major sign of cancer development. Sahil believes that any kind of tumor leads to cancer. Is he correct?
No, only malignant tumors lead to cancer.
The process of establishing an opinion of another person is known as what?
impression formation.
Recent research on the actor–observer effect suggests what?
it may be limited to certain situations.
People usually conform to most social norms because they what?
Want to be accepted by the group.
Stress effects appear to be moderated by the what?
The hypothalamus activating the sympathetic nervous system.
A malignant tumor is a/an what?
An uncontrolled growth of body cells that invades surrounding tissue and spreads to other parts of the body.
According to the elaboration likelihood model of attitude change, when persuasion depends on factors such as the attractiveness and credibility of the source or emotional responses by the receiver, it is referred to as the what route?
Peripheral route
True or False: Women and men tend to agree that the faces of men with more masculine features are more attractive than the faces of men with more feminine features.
True
The tendency to adjust one’s behavior to actual or perceived social pressures is called what?
conformity
Scientists suspect that persistent emotional arousal may damage the cardiovascular system due to the production of what stress hormones?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
A potentially life-threatening event involving the death of heart tissue due to a lack of blood flow to the heart is a/an what?
heart attack
The relationship between attitudes and behavior is best described as what?
moderate
Prejudice can best be defined as what?
A prejudgment, usually negative, of another person on the basis of his or her membership in a group.
What are 2 factors that play a role in explaining why people obey immoral commands?
Social validation and legitimization of authority