PSY 0105 Ch.1-3

A multicultural perspective is recognized as increasingly important to research in social psychology because ________.

a variety of cultural factors such as race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability help determine self-identity

Bernard watched a brief video of Samantha being interviewed for a job. He reports his impression of Samantha and indicates he is not at all confident in his ratings of her. According to research, how accurate is Bernard's impression?

Bernard is probably not very accurate as he is not very confident about his impression of her.

A commitment to accepting findings as accurate only to the extent they have been verified over and over is ____________________.

Skepticism

As a scientific discipline, social psychology seeks ________.

an understanding of the nature and causes of social behavior

A "causal relationship" means that ________.

changes in one variable causes changes in another variable

Affect includes ________.

current emotions and moods

Body movements carrying specific meanings in a given culture are called ____________.

emblems

A method of research in which one or more factors are systematically changed to determine whether such variations affect one or more other factors is called ____________.

experimentation

A stereotype based on appearance that is largely accurate is that, in contrast to less attractive people, more attractive people tend to ________.

have better interpersonal skills

Assume that a football coach is mean to a player. You have never observed this coach treat any other player in this manner. This situation reflects ____________________.

high distinctiveness

According to Kelley's theory, behaviors that arise because of an individual's traits, motives, or intentions are ________ caused, while those behaviors that arise because of some aspect of the social or physical environment are ________ caused.

internally; externally

Based on the "what is beautiful is good" implicit personality theory, physically attractive people are thought to be __________.

more socially skilled

According to the overconfidence barrier, first-year medical students who were __________ competent would tend to be ____________ accurate in predicting their test scores.

most; least

A(n) ________ in social psychology ________ in the U.S.

multicultural perspective; recognizes a widening of diversity

Automatic mental processes have the positive effect of ________.

reducing the effort needed for understanding the social world

A researcher wants to know whether writing an essay on a controversial topic will have an effect on the attitudes held by people. First, she administers an attitude survey that covers a number of topics, including electronic voting machines. She then randomly assigns subjects to write an essay either supporting or opposing the use of electronic voting machines. One week later, she administers the same attitude survey and compares those responses to the responses from the first time the survey was administered. In this experiment, the dependent variable (DV) is ________.

the attitude survey

A self-fulfilling prophecy is ________.

the process by which schemas sometimes influence the social world in ways to make the world consistent with the schema

Certain facial expressions are recognized as representing ________ underlying emotions in ________ different cultures.

the same basic; many

All of the following describe characteristics of a microexpression EXCEPT they ________.

usually do not reveal a person's true feelings

A basic principle sought by social psychologists would be one that ____________________.

will be true across time and cultures.