Chapter 12

Kylo is taking a social psychology course and his teacher asks student to take a computerized test that asks them to sort pictures into different categories, such as "good" and "bad." The goal of this test is to help identify automatic preferences of which a person may not be consciously aware. What is this test called?

Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Positive or negative evaluations of group members, based on their group membership is ______. whereas behaviors directed towards members of a group based on those evaluations is _______.

Prejudice, Discrimination

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

Pablo usually fishes alone, but when his friend Jaime accompanied Pablo on his last fishing trip, Pablo wound his fishing reel faster than when Pablo was fishing alone. This might best be explained by:

social facilitation

Sally has only met a member of her school's underwater basket weaving team, Ste, once, but she thinks that all the members of this team are weird and socially clueless. Sally's generalization that all members of the team are weird and socially clueless is called a :

stereotype

What is the best example of social facilitation?

a professional musician performing his best while playing for a large audience.

Research indicates that baby-faced adults are perceived:

as more naive, honest, helpless, and kind than matured-faced adults.

The area of social psychological that focuses on how people think about others and about the social world is called social __________.

cognition

Social facilitation is MOST likely to occur when an individual is:

in the presence of others during dominant actions.

On days when baseball player Charlie is hitting well, he attributes it to his own hard work and ability, whereas on days when he's hitting poorly, he attributes it to a bad pitcher or a bad bat. The difference in his attributions is an example of the:

self-serving attributional bias.