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All About You: The Self
Attitudes & Persuasion
Research Methods Anyone?
Social Cognition & Person Perception
Social Psychology: An Introduction
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How you view yourself, your thoughts, feelings, and characteristics is referred to as your ____________
Self-concept
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Mark wants to buy a new car. All of the new models are designed with a decorative balloon-like feature that runs across the top. Mark isn’t sure he likes this new feature, yet every car he looks at has it. Mark sees these new models everywhere and, eventually, he comes to like it. Which of the following principles BEST explains Mark’s change of attitude? A. classical conditioning B. mere exposure C. cognitive dissonance D. planned behavior
What is B mere exposure Page: 155
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The model that views human social behavior as a rational, information-processing–based phenomenon has led to a tremendous amount of research. In other words, this theoretical approach may be described as being very ________.
What is fertile
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The way in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world around us is called ______.
social cognition
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The notion that people are connected only through loose ties and that oneself and immediate relations are most important in life describes _________ societies.
What is individualistic
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________ is an assessment of how we feel about ourselves, often based upon social feedback from others.
Self-esteem
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Acquiring an attitude through operant conditioning involves A. obtaining additional information about the attitude object. B. direct experience with the attitude object. C. easy availability of the attitude object. D. experiencing private awareness in the presence of the attitude object.
B. direct experience with the attitude object. pg 158
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__________ is a way to combine the effects from many studies on the same topic to see which variables have been important across the studies. Meta-analysis longitudinal-analysis salience-analysis literature review
What is Meta-analysis
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A mental model or representation incorporating information on persons, objects, or situations is referred to as A. our self-concept. B. a self-presentation strategy. C. a schema. D. an attributive self-description.
C. a schema Page: 103
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The subfield of ________ emphasizes basic problems of survival, scarce resources, and reproduction across the course of human history.
evolutionary psychology
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What is a common social-psychological technique used for measuring unconscious attitudes and beliefs
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
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The core concept of cognitive dissonance theory is that A. we have a need to keep our beliefs, attitudes, and self-conceptions consistent. B. we have a compulsion to satisfy our knowledge, utilitarian, and value-expressive needs. C. our decisions about attitude objects are rational and consistent. D. our attitudes are determined by direct contact and experience.
A. we have a need to keep our beliefs, attitudes, and self-conceptions consistent. Page: 162
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An organized system of ideas that attempts to explain the relationship among events or phenomena is called a(n) A. concept. B. hypothesis. C. theory. D. experiment.
theory Page: 33
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Participants are asked to look at a picture of a group of college students. They are told to select the one they believe to be the “Athlete of the Year.” Most select a tall, black male with a muscular build. Their selection is based on A. the representativeness heuristic. B. the availability heuristic. C. correspondent inference. D. self-fulfilling prophecy. You have 10 seconds to write down your answer....5...
A. the representativeness heuristic. Page: 108
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Gordon Allport’s definition of social psychology emphasizes which of the following as influences of people’s behavior? A. the presence of others B. the implied presence of others C. the imagined presence of others D. All of these. E. B & C only
D. All of these
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42. Which of the following terms is out of place here? A. the self as “known” B. the self as object of awareness C. the self as subject and initiator D. the self as “me”
What is C. the self as subject and initiator Page: 58-61
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When opposing attorneys make their closing arguments to the jury, they know this is their last opportunity to persuade the jury to their point of view. The jury members know this is their last chance to hear the opposing viewpoints. This situation MOST likely involves A. high elaboration. B. the sleeper effect at work. C. low need for cognition. D. subliminal persuasion.
A. high elaboration. Page: 175
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As part of an experiment, you record people’s conversations about their happiest memories. Later, you ask them to rate on a five-point scale how happy they were when recounting their memories during the experiment. The former method is ______ data, whereas the latter method is ______ data.
C. qualitative; quantitative Page: 36
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VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIiMt9GgyDY&feature=related After the situation occurs someone says the comment below. According to your knowledge of social psychology the below statement could be an example of A. Response Amplification B. Fundamental Attribution Error C. Person perception D. Actor-Observer Effect "Wow Stanley is a mean person"
What is B. Fundamental Attribution Error pg 133
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The _____________ of the 1970s in social psychology adopted an information-processing approach to explain social psychological processes. A. rapid expansion B. cognitive revolution C. biological revolution D. None of these.
B. The cognitive revolution Page: 11-12
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83. How does self-awareness relate to self-regulation? A. You must be self-regulatory in order to be self-aware. B. You must be self-aware in order to self-regulate. C. Self-consciousness is key to assessing progress toward our goals. D. Self-awareness and self-regulation are not related.
What is B. You must be self-aware in order to self-regulate. Page: 63-64
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112. In Festinger and Carlsmith’s (1959) study of cognitive dissonance, why did people who received $20 report that the task was boring, even after telling someone (at the experimenter’s request) that the task was interesting? A. insufficient justification B. sufficient justification C. value-expressive motive D. utilitarian motive
B. sufficient justification Page: 162-163
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List the scientific method according to you text book in order. You have 50 seconds....45.....40...35.....
1) Select topic/Review past literature. 2) Develop a theory, generate hypothesis 3) Collect the Data 4) Analyze Data/Reevaluate the theory (5) Report theory usually if results are significant
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VIDEO DAIL DOUBLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuku6FiPfc This the myth that a team featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated is subsequently much more likely to have misfortune befall them—may be an example of which of the following? A. anchoring and adjustment B. the representativeness heuristic C. stereotyping D. the availability heuristic
What is D. the availability heuristic
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Dr. Shannon is a social neuroscientist. Which of the following topics would she MOST likely want to study? A. the relationship between the size of certain brain structures and gender differences in talking about emotions B. whether changes in one’s social status causes changes in his/her brain chemistry C. the relationship between social structure (i.e., individualism, collectivism) and the development of the limbic system in the brain D. All of these.
D. All of these. Page: 22