Psyc 101 Module 20

Randy has joined a new social club on campus. Is it likely that Randy will:

form the impressions he makes of these club members after only one meeting

Which of the following is an example of the planning fallacy?

Gerard believes he can complete a term paper within a one-week time frame. He is surprised when he cannot complete the project as quickly as he anticipated.

Which of the following is the most accurate statement about affective forecasting?

People tend to be accurate with predicting whether event will result in positive or negative feelings but inaccurate regarding the strength or duration of these emotions.

The area of social psychology that focuses on how people think abut others and about the social world is called social ____

Cognition

"Oh I know that I'll just be sad forever," Monique cries, after her first boyfriend broke up with her. "I'm never going to love again. My life is RUINED!" Given that she is unlikely to be sad forever, Monique is demonstrating the ______ bias.

Durability

Which of the following is an implicit attitude task: the task presents images of faces of men and women and then measures the time it takes to research participant to label the photo as good or bad?

Evaluative priming task

Sasha is taking her family to Disney world. She predicts that she will feel immense happiness seeing her young daughter meet all of the princesses at the theme park. However, whether daughter meets the first princess, Sasha does not feel as happy as she thought she would. Sashas experience is an example of what concept?

Impact bias

The implicit association task used in research, which records participants reaction times to categorizing objects, is measuring what type of attitude?

Implicit attitude

mood-congruent memory is occurring in which of the following scenarios?

John is currently sad and can more easily recall a time when he got in trouble for a late assignment.

People are usually motivated in some way when making social judgments and decisions. What often occurs as a result of having directional goals?

People may be skeptical about evidence that goes against their directional goal.

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

Which heuristic would you likely use if you were asked, "are there more words in the English language that start with letter "k" or that have "k" as the third letter in the word?

______

A(n) _____ is a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a target with a degree of favor or disfavor.

attitude

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

Kari visited the doctor recently who told her she needed to start eating better or she is at risk for a heart attack within the next few years. Kari is very motivated to view herself in a positive light and doesn't like the news the doctor gave her. She wonders if the doctor's tests could have been inaccurate. Kari's uncertainty over her health results from the doctor is an example of what?

motivated skepticism

Javari is teaching a psychology class and tells his students, "Kenna is 31, single, outspoken, and bright. She majored in philosophy in college. As a student, Kenna was deeply concerned with discrimination and other social issues." When Javari asked his class if it was more likely that Kenna was A) a bank teller or B) a bank teller AND a feminist, most people in his class chose option B. Javari explained that their answer was incorrect because their _____________ heuristic led them astray.

representativeness

The ____ heuristic is one in which the likelihood of an object belonging to a category is evaluated based on the extent to which the object appears similar to ones mental conceptualization of the category.

representativeness

When being considered for a job opening, people being interviewed often mirror the interviewer's behavior. This can be explained by what concept?

the chameleon effect

How is it that schemas help people save time as they have new experiences or encounter new people or objects on a daily basis?

We compare new experiences to previously stored schemas and this allows us to put forth less effort to assess those new encounters.

The _____ heuristic is one in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily examples come to mind.

availability