Social Psych

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

planning fallacy

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

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

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 proesses

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

Institutional Review Board

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

Mediating variable

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

Prefrontal cortex areas; limbic system

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

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

as smoking increase, drinking increases

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

what best describes evolutionary psychology?

certain traits are selected for and are passed along to subsequent generation

tammy is conducting a study on how exercise is related to decreased stress. She predicts that exervise leads to the release of endorphins. What is the mediating variable

endorphins

which of the following is not a focus of social psychology?

how groups function

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

Michael thinks that working hard is related to gray hair, but only among those who experience high levels of stress. What type of variable is stress?

moderator

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

produces more conclusive evidence than other methods

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