Social Psych Final Review- Jeopardy

Having conscious beliefs, feelings, and behaviors of hostility toward outgroup members that you are perfectly willing to admit reflects what type of bias?

Blatant

Mike is a poor browler, but he always brags that he can beat anyone in his league. Christoff is the league champion but he always thinks that his opponent will be him. Mike's overestimation and Christoff's underestimation of their abilities demonstrates the:

Dunning-Kruger Effect

The inability to show ______, or to resolve conflict with another person, can block people's ability to make deposits to the relationship bank account

Forgiveness

Nora has decided to visit the new community recreation center for a swim. As she enters the change room, she notices both of the two other people present put there shoes in a locker. Before she walks out, she does the same. What concept is this?

Informational influence

Sherise sees that the rubber ball in her yard is about to blow into the pool, so she walks over to it, picks it up and places it in a toy bin. Sherise has acted in a way that would bring about a specific, desired outcome. She has acted with:

Intentionality

Why does engaging in downward comparison provide a boost to an individual self-esteem?

It reminds you that other people are not as good as you in a given domain

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 at her mother with uncertainty. As she sees her mother smile and nod, Lilah give her uncle a huge. Lilah has used ________ to determine how to act in this situation.

Social Referencing

Discrimination

based on behaviors

Sterotypes

based on beliefs

Prejudice

based on emotions

The ___________ of persuasion employs, direct, relevant, and logical messages to convince a listener to make a specific change.

central route

"Feelings" is a general term used to describe a wide range of states that include emotions, moods, and traits. These states are similar in the fact that they involve changes in subjective experience, physiological responding, and behavior in response to a meaningful event. What are the differences between these states of emotions, moods, and traits?

emotions typically occur on the order of seconds, whereas moods may last for days, and traits are tendencies to respond a certain way across various situations

Lonnie doesn't know when to leave because there is a big storm starting he may encounter. Leaving later will make him late for the meeting, but leaving earlier could get him into an accident. Which theory would predict that because of evolution, Lonnie would choose the less costly or dangerous option and leave later in the day to avoid the storm?

error management theory

in order to get a coworker to start contributing to a group project, you express feelings of annoyance, anger, and dislike. You hope that by expressing such emotions, your coworker will change their behavior. Using your emotions to impact the behavior of your worker is an example of:

independent self

Vladamir comes from a culture in which his own accomplishments are very important to him because he feels that they set him apart from others. On his resume, he lists the jobs hes had, the awards hes won, and the degrees that he has earned. He feels that this will help him get the new job for which he is applying. This culture seems to value:

individualism

Violence

intended to cause extreme physical harm

The _______ functions of emotions refers to the roles that emotions play within each of us individually. They can include physical changes in our bodies or psychological changes in our minds.

intrapersonal

Aggression

may cause harm

People are usually motivated in some way when making social judgement and decisions. What often occurs as a result of having directional goals?

motivated skepticism

Conformity that results from a concern about what others think of us is called:

normative influence

___________ influence refers to the conformity that results from a desire to act in a manner that is clearly socially approved such as speaking softly in libraries.

normative influence

On a popular TV show, when one character named Amy tells her boyfriend Sheldon about her recent publication in a major science journal, Sheldon ignores her big news and talks more about himself. Sheldon's reaction is an example of :

passive-destructive responding

What are the three facets of emotional responding?

physiology(how fast one's heart beats), subjective experience(feeling intensely happy or sad), and facial expressive behavior(smiling or frowning)

Which trick to persuasion can be loosely summarized by the saying "If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"?

reciprocity

One proposed aspect of the self is that you reflect on and try to change your own self. This describes the self as:

reflexive

What are the criteria that are necessary for a person to engage in the process of social comparison?

relevance and similarity

When Jessica gets home from her dental hygienist job, she immediately starts straightening the house, doing laundry, and preparing dinner for her family. The additional sets of duties that often falls to women who work outside of the home is called:

second shift

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

we compare new experiences to previously stored schemas and this allows us to put forth less effort to assess those new enounters