Psych Exam 6

explicit

Calvin is interested in measuring his school's willingness to do volunteer work around the community. He sends out a self-report survey that asks students to directly fill out their _________ attitudes on the topic.

personality, outlook, and resilience

Examples of internal or top-down causes of subjective well-being include:

normative influence

When people are worried about what other think of them and decide to go along with the crowd is known as what?

a stronger immune systems

An example outcome of high subjective well-being includes:

assess automatic preferences for certain groups

An implicit association test is designed to:

happy people are more likely to donate to charity.

Happiness has been shown to be associated with a number of desirable outcomes for example:

obedience

If a researcher is studying how people react to a command of an authority figure, then he/she are most likely studying what?

Mood-congruent memory

If you are in a good mood and think back to many good memories, then you might state that your life is "good." This process can be attributed to what?

contradict

Implicit attitudes can sometimes ___________ explicit attitudes.

76%

In Asch's line study roughly _______ of participants gave at least one wrong answer.

word of mouth

Listening to your friend's advice for the best place to get ice cream over an ad that states the same place as the best ice cream shop in town is based on what technique?

informational influence

Lulu has never been to the United States and is unsure what behavior is socially appropriate in certain situations. As a result, she conforms by going along with the crowd in order to understand the norm. Which of the following terms BEST describes this example?

following orders from an authority figure

Milgram's obedience study demonstrated what factor in participants willing to shock others to an extreme level?

those we encounter

Much of what we do, as individuals in society, is a reflection of:

can occur independently but are related

Prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination:

observing just 1 person disagreeing with the majority

Research on social pressure and conformity suggests which of the following factors can help individuals resist conformity in a group?

Donate her time and money to help others in her community or around the world to try and make a difference.

Sandra has relatively high subjective well-being. As such, we can predict she is most likely to do which of the following?

fixed action patterns; peripheral

Sequences of behavior that occur in exactly the same fashion, in exactly the same order, each time are known as ______. This phenomenon is similar to the "tricks" utilized by the ________ route of processing.

schema

Someone describes to you a fur covered animal with four legs, a tail, and that barks, you think of a dog. The dog that you picture in your mind is an example of a:

hot cognition

Someone who commonly receives bad grades, but believes that they are a good student can fall into the trap of what type of bias?

Female participants obediently shocked the experimental victim at a rate similar to males in the Milgram and other studies which was approximately 65% of participants.

Stanley Milgram's studies on obedience and more recent replications have shown that:

affective forecasting

The durability bias occurs when a person overestimates how long their feelings might last. This bias is a type of:

fixed action patterns (faps)

The peripheral route to persuasion takes advantage "trigger features" that activate sequential behavior in animals and humans. What is this sequence of behavior called?

warmth and competence

The stereotype content model suggests that we judge social groups on which two features?

disgust

The stereotype content model suggests that when we interact with homeless people we feel what type of emotional prejudice?

conformity

The tendency to act like those around us and be influenced by what they do is called?

Judging the credibility of information based on irrelevant factors

Thirty-eight percent of people report using the internet and having it influence their decision to see a doctor. While the internet has an important role, which of the following is a concern doctors have over the average person turning to the internet for medical advice?

event schema

Waiting in line at the grocery store until it is your turn to pay for your items, is an example of what type of schema?

Large support network and many social roles in a community

What are some factors that increase social integration?

Subtle

What biases, are automatic, ambiguous, and ambivalent; however, are extremely important to pay attention to because of their real consequences?

implicit association test

What can be used to measure an attitude when one might not want to admit it explicitly?

Uncertainty and similarity

What factors increase your susceptibility to social proof?

Enjoying life

What is an example of the positive feelings type of happiness?

Without carefully considering the facts, people will believe someone high on the three factors

What is one of the implications of the Triad of Trustworthiness?

reciprocity

When a bartender offers you a free taste, you feel obligated to purchase the drink. This is an example of:

planning fallacy

When preparing to write a paper for a class you decide that it should only take three hours, but in reality it takes twice as long. This is an example of:

seeing other teachers refuse to shock learners, when the instructions came from another participant, when the learner was in the same room as the teacher

Which factor decreased the rates of obedience in studies conducted by Milgram?

Attractiveness

Which is NOT one of the corners of the Triad of Trustworthiness?

sequential

Which is NOT one of the routes of processing?

Life satisfaction, positive feelings and negative feelings

Which of the following components are measured by psychologists interested in subjective well-being?

They are unaware they hold an actual bias, such as a bias towards an ethnic minority

Which of the following is a possible outcome when individuals' implicit and explicit attitudes do not match?

peripheral

Which processing route relies on heuristics?

Learned helplessness

________ occurs when people conclude that unpleasant or aversive stimuli cannot be controlled.

Emotion; problem

__________-focused coping is when one regulates their emotional reaction to stress, and _____________-focused coping is addressing the stressful event.

the peripheral route processing; the central route processing

___________ relies on psychological techniques; whereas, ______________ emphasizes communicating objective information.