SOCIAL PYSCHOLOGY

1. Nell tastes her food, then salts it. You assume that the food needed salt, therefore, you attribute her actions to a(n) a. internal cause. b. external cause. c. setting. d. situational demand. B There is a strong relationship between dating frequency and physical attractiveness a. for males. b. for females. c. for both males and females. d. beyond the initial stage of attraction. B __________ is best known for his research on conformity. a. Asch b. Rubin c. Schach...

- Is there a link between playing violent video games and engaging in aggressive behavior? 1. Which of the following questions would a social psychologist be most likely to study? - A compilation of anecdotal observations and case studies 2. Social psychology is all of the following except - It assumes that thoughts and behaviors are influenced by other people 3. Which of the following is a central part of the definition of social psychology? - Sociology 4. To examine the relationship bet...

An experiment that gets the subject involved and interested but that does not represent events that occur in the real world is: high in experimental realism and low in mundane realism Debriefing a subject at the end of an experiment: is a valuable way of undoing some of the discomfort and deception that may have occurred during the experiment. A study on dating relationships found that the number of text messages sent between dating partners increased with the number of miles they lived apar...

Theories of Self and Identity - Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) - Brewer and Gardener's 3 Types of Self (1966) - Private Self vs Public Self (Carver & Sheier, 1981) Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) Theory of Self-Schema Development related to self vs groups and Identity - Differing identities based on context - Individual Self- personal identity - Collective Self- group characteristics - We tend to favour those in our group rather than those not in our gr...

Theory of mind is important for group living because it can prevent misunderstandings that could lead to aggression or death. In an independent culture, a person's sense of self tends to be based largely on personal achievements According to the textbook, all the following factors can decrease the accuracy of secondhand information EXCEPT base-rate information Responses to stimuli in the environment are guided by two different systems of thinking. The intuitive system performs many oper...

According to the definition of social psychology presented in your text, social psychology is the study of how _________ affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of humans. the presence of real or imagined others an example of social influence? You feel guilty because you lied to your trusting professor about your assignment. Julie is 8 months old, and her mother pretends her baby food is a train in order to convince her to eat it. Julie's mother is using a rather creative form of so...

forming impressions are often based off of physical appearance & non verbal expressiveness prejudice unjustifiable attitudes towards a group Is prejudice an attitude or a behavior attitude Is discrimination an attitude or behavior behavior what forms prejudice? beliefs, emotions, and predispositions towards a group stereotypes generalized beliefs about a group of people stereotypes create _____ in our perceptions biases illusionary correlation a perceived but nonexistent correlati...

In his first chapter, Aronson defines social psychology as the study of: social influence Aronson defines social psychology as: the influence that people have upon the beliefs, feelings, and behaviors of others. "The influences that people have upon the beliefs, feelings, and behaviors of others" is the text's definition of: social psychology Our tendency to overestimate our powers of prediction once we know the outcome of a given event is known as: the hindsight bias According ...

Behaviorists would suggest our social cognition depends on two kinds of learning: Operant learning and associational learning Employing classical conditioning, a famous hamburger chain uses bikini models in its advertisements, hoping that the viewer: Will experience pleasant emotions when seeing their logo in the future The Bobo Doll took a beating for science. Which principles were tested with this experiment? Observational learning An experimenter gets the best available horoscopes for t...

As a field, social psychology focuses on in predicting human behavior. situational factors Collectivistic cultures would be more likely to understand factors when analyzing behavior, whereas individualistic cultures would be more likely to emphasize factors. situational; dispositional Making internal attributions for your successes and making external attributions for your failures is an example of self-serving bias According to the actor-observer bias, we have more information about infl...