Psychology 11.2 Attraction, Social Cognition, & Attitudes

The Implicit Association Task (IAT) used in research, which records participants' reaction times to categorizing objects, is measuring what type of attitude?

Implicit

Calvin is interested in measuring his school's willingness to do volunteer work around the community. He sent out a self-report survey that asks students to directly fill out their ___________ attitudes on the topic.

explicit

In relation to factors that influence perceptions, deliberate, conscious mental processes are to ___________ as automatic, nonconscious mental process are to ________________.

explicit cognition; implicit cognition

People naturally use mental "shortcuts" to simplify their social world. These shortcuts are known as:

heuristics.

"Hot cognition" refers to:

mental processes influenced by desires and feelings.

__________ is a person's general belief about a group of people and, once activated, may guide judgments outside of conscious awareness.

A stereotype

Which of the following statements is *most* accurate regarding the preferences that people show for physically attractive people?

Adults, children, and even babies seem to show such preferences across a variety of circumstances.

During a job interview, the person being interviewed will often mirror the interviewer's behavior. This can be explained by what concept?

Chameleon effect

What is the "halo effect?"

NOT When people work diligently to not judge other people, they perceive themselves in a more positive way, which is called the "halo effect."

The "good genes hypothesis" proposes that people with physical qualities like averageness, symmetry, sex prototypicality, and youthfulness are more attractive because they are better-quality mates. The "good genes hypothesis" is from which approach to psychology?

NOT psychodynamic