Exam #2

Manda and her friend Cheri were in a car accident on their way to school one morning. Cheri was rather frustrated and in order to calm her down Manda said, "Well, it happened because it was meant to be, there is not much we can do about it now." Manda is showing

an external locus of conrol

In "Why he can't hear what you're saying", the comparison is made serveral times between "marriage" and what TV show?

Everybody loves Raymond

Complementary Needs Theory suggests that we often pick a partner that complements our looks

False

If a person's attitude is anchored by many sources, it should be easy to change.

False

In "White Bear", participants were asked to sit in a room and read a book about white bears.

False

In "White Bear", the results of the study indicate that we can easily control what we think about

False

In "Why he can't hear what you're saying", the author implies that men are much better at understanding women than vice cersa

False

In "Why he can't hear what you're saying", the author implies that men are much better at understanding women than vice versa.

False

In a dramatic event, like a bank robbery, all people who see that event will perceive it the same way because it is so different than the norm.

False

Men are considered betwee than women at learning languages.

False

The contextual effect states that we take information we know about a person from one area and use it to make a decision in some other area that doesn't apply.

False

The isolated, remote cultures of the world do not have language.

False

The results of the study mentioned in "Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi (Ce Sior)?" were very easy to publish.

False

There are five different pairs in the Myers-Briggs personality test.

False

Unattractive people tend to be bad people, and attractive people tend to be good people

False

When it comes to memory, men are better at remembering spoken words than men are.

False

Personality is:

For the most part, stable throughout your lifetime

The area of psychology that deals with how people complete a picture even when they don't have all the facts is:

Gestalt Psychology

If I said: "I believe I am in control of what happens to me," I probably have:

an internal locus of control

In "Touching Stangers", it mentions a 1992 study that found the largest tip earners to be

attractive female waitresses who touched female patrons

In "Arousal on a Creaky Bridge", the male participants in the study were asked to...

call the female researcher

What are the three components of attitudes?

cognitive, affective, behavioral

What are the three components of attitues?

cognitive, affective, behavioral

When you put information into your head, you are:

encoding it

Matt is vey attractive and finds that people usually think he knows the answers to everything. This is an example of

halo effect

The aforementioned test is very good at measuring or helping with:

job placement

The first person/people that really became interested in the concept of "personality" is:

Gordon Allport

The physical attractiveness stereotype states that people tend to think what is attractive is also good. What might explain this?

Halo effect

Brianna is not shy she just feels uncomfortable talking to people unless she has something in common with them. Brianna is a/n

Introvert

According to the Nativist School of Thought, the brain has a built-in ability to learn language, termed the

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

Trina and her sister are taking a road trip together. Trina does not get stressed out when they miss turns or end up getting lost on the interstate. Her sister is the exact opposite.

Trina is a Type B personality and her sister Type A

A "cue" is a signal, that sometimes leads you to act in a certain way.

True

According to Social Learning Theory people can learn attitudes by observing the rewards and punishments received by others for their attitudes.

True

According to the Social Learning Theory people can learn attitudes by observing the rewards and punishments received by others for their attitudes

True

Concerning attitudes what people say is not usually correlated to what people do

True

Concerning attitudes what people say is not usually correlated to what people do.

True

Exchange Theory states that you act when you feel you are getting something equal or better out of a relationship.

True

In "Arousal on a Creaky Bridge", researchers sought to find a link between sexual attraction and fear.

True

In "On Being Sane in Insane Places," the "real" insane patients were better at detecting the pseudopatients than the actual hospital staff.

True

In "Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi (Ce Sior)?", the results of the study imply that while women were not willing to go to bed with someone they do not know, they are willing to accept an invitation to a date.

True

Paralinguistics include tone of voice and vocal inflections.

True

Surveys and focus groups are examples of self-report measures used to measure attitudes

True

The author of "Why he can't hear what you're saying" says that he, himself, is married

True

The idea that self-esteem can go up or down but is always at risk for returning to the set point is explained by Quasi-Personality.

True

Which of the following personality types is more likely to be easily stressed out?

Type A

A halo-effect is

When one is judged in one area based on what is known of them in another

Bruce is hooked up to a machine that is measuring his facial muscle movement and correlating it with the muscle movements associated with emotions and attitudes. Bruce is receiving

a facial electromyography.

Which of the following help to influence a change in attitude?

all of the above opinions of well liked people, changing social norms, emotional appeals

In "The Small World Problem", how many chains of the 160 started in Nebraska were completed?

44

In the "Attributions in the Advice Columns" article, how many letters did each team analyze in one sitting, due to possible fatigue?

6

In "Looking Askance at Eyewitness Testimony," it say that in all the cases exonerated in 1996 due to newly introduced DNA evidence, (...) of the cases had mistaken eyewitness testimony.

90%

In "Looking Askance at Eyewitness Testimony," it says that in all the cases exonerated in 1996 due to newly introduced DNA evidence, (....) of the cases had mistaken eyewitness testimony.

90%

Which of the following could influence the way we perceive an event?

All of the above

Which of the following is not a component of attitudes?

Aversive

Type A personalities have a tendency to

Be uptight and stressed out

What term states that it is difficult to think about something unless you have a word for it?

Both A and B Wharf-Sapir Hypothesis and Linguistic Relativity Thesis

Why do high-anger drivers become aggressive on the roads?

They experience some trigger or provocation that makes them aggressive.

According to the Social Learning Theory, people learn language by

Mimicking other people

What is the Wharf-Sapir Hypothesis?

One's ability to think about something is based on whether that individual has a word for it

Ending a sentence by raising the pitch of your voice indicates a question, and is part of the _______ component of language.

Paralinguistics

Which of the following relationship type is based primarily on emotional ties?

Primary/ Expressive

What theory says that relationships are more successful when the two people have something in common?

Principle of Homogamy

The article that you read for this week demonstrates the relevance of:

Proximity effect

Who developed the concept "Central Organizing Trait?"

Solomon Asch

The reason that social psychologists triangulate the measurements of attitudes is because they want to:

make sure their findings are accurate, so they check and double check with alternate methods.

The first time you hear a new Lady Gaga song on the radio you aren't too fond of it. By the 9th or 10th time you hear it you find yourself singing along and dancing a little. This is an example of

mere exposure effect

In "Looking Askance at Eyewitness Testimony," it mentions that "post-event information" is....

newspaper articles, comments by police, etc, that witnesses incorporate in their memories of events.

Studies have shown that the #1 problem in relationships is

poor communication

In "The Hard to get Woman", the woman who tested the theories was a ...

prostitute

Brad has always been a good kid until recently when his mother started catching him pinching his baby brother whenever she wasn't looking. His mother began taking away a toy each time she caught him pinching his brother. Eventually Brad stopped pinching his brother; this is an example of

punishment

This model says that we create out perceptions of people by considering all of the information that we know about them

summation model

Which of the following is not part of where attitudes come from?

the experiences of our friends

When you talk, the majority of the listener's understanding comes from:

your expressions and tone of voice.