psych chapter 14

According to the _____, a woman's appeal is more strongly connected with her age and health, both of which are markers of reproductive capacity.​

parental investment model

According to Durlez and Stangor & Crandall, people are apt to like people who _________.​

share their attitudes

From the _________, aggressive skills are mainly acquired by observation of other people acting aggressively.

social-cognitive perspective​

In the context of the Milgram studies, despite the expressed American ideal of independence, we are _________ from early childhood to obey authority figures such as parents and teachers.​

socialized

According to Robert Sternberg's triangular model of love, which of the following is the ideal form of love?

Consummate love

In terms of behavior, which of the following is true of prejudice?

Prejudice is connected with avoidance, aggression, and discrimination.

People tend to divide their social world into "us" and "them." They usually view those who belong to their own groups—the "in-group"—more favorably than those who do not—the "out-group." Isolation from the out-group makes it easier to maintain their stereotypes. Which of the following source of prejudice does this illustrate?

Social categorization

The _________ is the tendency to attribute our own behavior to situational factors but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional factors.​

actor-observer effect

Romantic love, in Sternberg's scheme, refers to _____.​

an intense, positive emotion that involves sexual attraction, feelings of caring, and the belief that one is in love

Enduring behavioral and cognitive tendencies that are learned and expressed by evaluating particular people, places, or things with favor or disfavor are known as _________.​

attitudes

According to the _________, people tend to develop romantic relationships with people who are similar to themselves in physical allure and other traits.​

attraction-similarity hypothesis

In _________ terms, prejudice is connected with avoidance and aggression.​

behavioral

According to Durlez and Stangor & Crandall, there is often social and economic _________ between people of different races and religions.​

conflict

People are said to _________ when they change their behavior to adhere to social norms.​

conform

In the early 1950s, a classic experiment on _________ was conducted by Solomon Asch.​

conformity

On a(n) _________ level, prejudice is associated with negative feelings such as fear, dislike, or hatred.​

emotional

The feeling of _________ encourages helping behavior and discourages aggression.​

empathy

Prejudices act as cognitive filters through which people view the social world. People tend to think of people as "familiar" or "foreign," or "good" or "bad." Their feelings and reactions toward others may be biased by these perceptions. This source of prejudice is referred to as _____.​

information processing

According to Perrett's 1994 study of people in England and Japan, both British and Japanese men consider women with _____ to be most attractive.​

large eyes, high cheekbones, and narrow jaw

According to a study by Sprecher and Felmlee (2008), U.S. women are more willing than U.S. men to marry someone who is:

not good-looking.

Stanley Milgram studied the factors that contribute to _________.​

obedience to authority

In the selection of a romantic partner, women tend to place greater emphasis on traits such as:

professional status

A reason why people tend to have partners from the same background is _________.​

propinquity

Social facilitation refers to:

the process by which a person's performance is increased when other members of a group engage in similar behavior.