EXAM 6 Quiz Questions

What is the heuristic in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily instances of it come to mind?

Availability heuristic

What are the hostile feelings, conscious beliefs, and behaviors that people state out loud?

Blatant biases

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

Emotion; problem

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?

Event schema

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

Normative influence

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

Obedience

An implicit association test is designed to:

Assess automatic preferences for certain groups

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

Attractiveness

What is the term to explain that certain behaviors are unintentional, uncontrollable, occur outside of conscious awareness, or are cognitively efficient?

Automaticity

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

Affective forecasting

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

1/3

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

?

Which phenomena is the most studied in social psychology?

? Not conformity or obedience

Which of the following is the best definition of self-efficacy?

A belief that one can perform adequately in a given situation

A health condition that persists over time is typically known as:

A chronic disease

_____________ best describes when people feel like they have the power to change their environment or behavior if they need or want to?

A sense of control

Which processing route focus on logic and relevant material?

Central

What is it called for the tendency of individuals to nonconsciously mimic the postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, and other behaviors of one's interaction partners?

Chameleon effect

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

Conformity

Implicit attitudes can sometimes ___________ explicit attitudes.

Contradict

What is it when behaviors advantaged or disadvantaged people based on group membership?

Discrimination

Jolene asked her parents for 2,000 dollars, which she knew they wouldn't agree to give her. Then, she asked for 200 dollars instead, which they happily gave. This is an example of:

Door in the face

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.

Explicit

Asking someone, on a scale of 1 to 10, "How sexist do you consider yourself?" Would be considered measuring the individual's ___________.

Explicit attitudes

An example of a group being high on competence and low on warmth would be:

Extremely rich people

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

Female participants obediently shocked the experimental victim at a rate similar to males in the Milgram and other studies.

What is compared to a "tape" that always happens in the same way every time?

Fixed action patterns

What is NOT one of the five factors often studied in regard to resilience?

Genetic influences

Happiness has been shown to be associated with a number of desirable outcomes such as __________.

Happy people are more likely to donate to charity

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

Hot cognition

What is the mental processes that are influenced by desires and feelings?

Hot cognition

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

Implicit association test?

Conformity that results from a concern to act in a socially approved manner as determined by how others act is known as what?

Informational influence

What does happiness result from?

Internal and external causes

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?

Judging the credibility of information based on irrelevant factors

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

Life satisfaction, positive feelings and negative feelings

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

NOT Job satisfaction

The line study conducted by Asch is a prime example of what process?

Normative influence

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

Observing just one person disagreeing with the majority

People are usually ___________ in their accuracy of their perceptions.

Overconfident

Which processing route relies on heuristics?

Peripheral

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

Personality, outlook, and resilience

What is the process by which a message induces change in beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors?

Persuasion

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:

Planning fallacy

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

Reciprocity

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

Seeing the other participants refusing to press the shock levers; when the instructions to continue came from another participant; when the person being shocked was in the same room as the participant

Which is NOT one of the routes of processing?

Sequential

What is the area of social psychology that focuses on how people think about others and about the social world?

Social Cognition

What is the area of social psychology that focuses on how people think about others and about the social world

Social cognition

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

Subtle

Dr. Chui is trying to make recommendations to her client, Gary, to increase his subjective well-being. In this scenario, Dr. Chui is likely to do which of the following?

Tailor specific feedback for Gary since no one single recommendation is appropriate for everyone

Which technique of persuasion uses a satisfied customer expressing how a particular product "changed their life!"?

Testimonials

Social Dominance Orientation believes all EXCEPT which of the following?

The ingroup should be united

What is the most effective way to protect from being persuaded?

The inoculation method

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

The peripheral route processing; the central route processing

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

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

What is the most accurate statement about stress and health?

Those highly stressed are more likely to get sick

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

Those we encounter

Which behavior type is considered at a higher risk for heart disease?

Type A Behavior

Which is NOT one of the ways that directional goals can bias our thinking?

Unrealistic self-view

What standards do researchers measure life satisfaction by?

Whatever standards the individual participant thinks are most important for a good life

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

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

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?

Word of mouth