Socia Psychology Quiz 1-3 Questions

One way that schemas influence social thought is by ________.

acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some information and away from other information

Which process of social cognition refers to the information we notice?

attention

Which of the following is a type of other-enhancement?

Using flattering language

Imagine you need to ask your friend for a favor. According to the research about how moods affect behaviors, when would be the best time to ask her?

After she was just offered her dream job

Your friend is talking about how murders are very common because he's been seeing reports of them all over the news lately. This is an example of the ___________ heuristic.

Availability

Which of the following best describes the relationship between affect and cognition?

Cognition and affect influence each other

Which of the following contrasts controlled processing and automatic processing?

Controlled processing is systematic and effortful, whereas automatic processing is fast and relatively effortless.

Which of the following categories is NOT one of the categories mentioned in the textbook regarding factors affecting social interaction

Perceptual processes

Which type of nonverbal communication is relatively universal?

Facial expressions such as smiles and frowns

What is the name of the committee that ensures that research is being conducted ethically?

Institutional Review Board

In the study by Proudfoot, Kay, and Koval (2015) on implicit attitudes about gender, the researchers found that when participants were told an architectural design was by a female, they judged it to be ________ creative compared to when they were told the same design was by a male.

Less

Which of the following is NOT a necessary component of an experiment?

Mediating variable

Believing we can get more accomplished in a certain period of time than we actually can is called the ___________.

Planning fallacy

Controlled processing occurs mostly in the __________________, whereas automatic processing occurs mostly in the __________________.

Prefrontal cortex areas; limbic system

What group of professionals is better at detecting lies than the general population?

Secret service agents

Which of the following dimensions of causal attribution is used to evaluate if behavior is likely to change?

Stable-unstable dimension

Which statement BEST describes the attribution process?

The process by which we seek to understand the causes of the behavior of others and ourselves.

The two-factor theory of emotion proposes that we infer our feelings from _____________.

The situations in which we experience these emotions

According to the evolutionary perspective, why do we find people with traits such as symmetrical features and clear skin attractive?

The traits are indicators of good health

Which of the following terms refers to a framework that explains certain events or processes?

Theory

Which of the following is a downside of schemas?

They can remain unchanged in the face of contradictory information

What does research on impression formation suggests about our ability to form impressions of other people?

We are pretty good at forming accurate impressions.

Suppose smoking and drinking alcohol are found to be correlated at +.65. We can conclude that...

as smoking increases, drinking increases

The fundamental attribution error states that we tend to make _________________ attributions for others' behavior rather than ______________ attributions.

dispositional; situational

Because of the self-serving bias, we tend to attribute our successes to ______________ causes and our failures to ________________ causes.

internal; external

Social psychologists focus their attention mainly on individuals because...

our actions are performed by and thoughts occur in the minds of individuals

The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that _________________________.

our facial expressions influence our emotions

One reason that social scientists put their faith in the scientific method is that the scientific method

produces more conclusive evidence than other methods

Early research conducted by Solomon Asch suggests the presence of central traits, which are ________.

traits that strongly color the way we interpret other aspects of another person

People often forecast that they will feel ________ when reading about a large-scale tragedy compared to a smaller tragedy. However, findings indicate that people who actually read about such tragedies ________.

worse; feel the same regardless of the size of the tragedy