Social pysc exam 2

The. 51. self is prevalent in many collectivistic, East Asian contexts where the goal is to suppress personal preferences and desires, and to adjust to others. In other words, people with this type of self, view themselves as connected to others.

INTERDEPENDDENT SELF

Emotions serve a cultural function. One such function is

guide how people ought to feel in various situations

35. Cognitive strategies that simplify decision-making by using mental short cuts are called ___. They are sometimes referred to as "rules of thumb."

heuristic

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

. IMPLICIT ATTITUDE

System 2 thinking is driven by _____and is typically ___________

1. conscious 2. slow

Emotions exist in

1. short term 2. long term

How is it that schemas help people save time as they have new experiences or encounter new people or objects on a daily basis?

BY COMPARISON OF PREVIOUSLY KNOWN SCHEMAS, ALLOWING THE PERSON TO SAVE TIME.

The definition of... is a pattern of shared meaning and behavior among a group of people that is passed from one generation to the next.

Culture

Ebony is trying to decide what she is going to do for her philosophy class project. According to the rational decision-making model of Bazerman and Moore, her first step would be to:

DEFINE THE PROBLEM

cultural. are the focus of an approach to understanding culture primarily by paying attention to unique and distinctive features that set them apart from other cultures.

DIFFERENCES

In a popular movie about the Mafia, the head of the family chastises one of his sons, Sonny, for letting other people know what he was thinking and feeling. "Never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking," the Mafia boss says to Sonny. From an emotions perspective, the father is speaking about _

DISPLAY RULES

When you drink spoiled milk or put a rancid piece of cheese in your mouth, you may spit it out before you have any cognitive awareness of why you are feeling disgusted. From an evolutionary perspective, this demonstrates which concept?

EMOTIONS HELP US ACT WITH MINIMAL CONSCIOUS AWARENESS.

Which of the following refers to a uniquely human form of learning that is taught by one generation to another?

ENCULTURATION

The tendency to define one's self in terms of stable traits that guide behavior is one's... self

INDEPENDENT

Which is an example of using a downward comparison?

MAKING MENTAL COPARISONS WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE PERCEIVED TO BE INFERIOR ON THE STANDARD OF COMPARISON

35. Young Lilah is taken to a family dinner and she meets an uncle who she has never met before. As he reaches to her for a hug, Lilah looks to her mother with an uncertain look on her face. As she sees her mother nodding and smiling, Lilah looks back to the uncle and gives him a warm hug. Lilah has used to determine how to act in this situation.

SOCIAL REFERENCING

The double curse explanation provides a rational for which of the following?

THE DUNNY KRUEGER EFFECT

The tendency for unskilled people to be overconfident in their ability and highly skilled people to underestimate their ability is the ________ effect.

THE DUNNY KRUEGER EFFECT

There are many facets of culture. What do they include?

Taking the perspective of someone from a different culture · Understanding the verbal/behavioral expression that occurs during ethnocultural empathy · Being cognizant of how different cultures are treated by larger entities such as the job market and the media · Accepting differences in cultural choices regarding language, clothing preference, food choice, etc.

When people think about culture they often overlook processes such as the learning of gender roles.

The learning of gender roles is often an invisible process. 58.

. Of the following terms that could be used to describe a person's emotions, which wouldnot support the Universalist perspective that people tend to have the same feelings across different cultures?

UNIVERSILISM PROPOSES THAT THERE ARE SINGLE OBJECTIVE STANDARDS, INDEPENDENT OF CULTURE, IN BASIC DOMAINS SUCH AS LEARNING REASONING AND EMOTION THAT ARE PART OF ALL HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

A(n) __________ is a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a target with a degree of favor or disfavor.

attitude

The ________ heuristic is one in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is evaluated based on how easily examples come to mind.

availability

Joseph is very focused on counting the number of acorns that have fallen from a tree in his front yard. He is concentrating so hard, in fact, that he fails to notice the obvious and important fact that there is dog poop underneath the tree as well. Failing to notice this available information leads Joseph to step in the mess. Which of the following is this an example of?

bounded awareness

rules refer to culturally sanctioned regulations about what emotions are appropriate to show in a given situation.

cultural script

35. Marlon has found that when he gets sad, his girlfriend becomes particularly nurturing and tries to take care of him. While he does not particularly want to feel these emotions, the response it draws from his girlfriend demonstrates the function of emotions.

interpersonal

When being considered for a job opening, people being interviewed often mirror the interviewer's behavior. This can be explained by what concept?

mirroring

The need for ________ refers to the desire to come to a decision that will resolve and conclude an issue.

need for closure

After taking a 10 question pop quiz, John was confident that he got at least 9 questions correct. However, after grading he found that he actually only answered 6 questions correctly. John suffers from

overconfidence

The tendency to inflate your own sense of competence or to be more certain than you should be is called

overconfidence

The process by which we look to other people to get information about how to feel in specific situations is called social

referencing

Javari is teaching a psychology class and tells his students, "Kenna is 31, single, outspoken, and bright. She majored in philosophy in college. As a student, Kenna was deeply concerned with discrimination and other social issues." When Javari asked his class if it was more likely that Kenna was A) a bank teller or B) a bank teller AND a feminist, most people in his class chose option B. Javari explained that their answer was incorrect because their _____________ heuristic led them astray.

representative

When a person positively values the outcomes of others, giving them more than necessary from a desire to be fair the person is operating under the bounds of:

self interest

Which of the following is one of the physical responses that are immediately inspired by an emotional experience?

shutting down of unneeded digestive processes

Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) found that children's contained more exciting content in the United States than in Taiwan.

storybooks