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Questions
1. _________ includes facts about situations and people, and __________ includes how we categorize, judge, and infer, solve problems, and perform actions.
Concept knowledge, rule knowledge.
Rule knowledge, concept knowledge.
2. In associative memory models, if a person recalls a certain idea, activating a node in their memory, what happens to that activation?
It is contained, only activating that node unless deliberate effort is taken to recall other ideas
Up to three other nodes surrounding the initial node are activated, all of which are directly linked to the initial node
The activation spreads, moving out along links between the nodes
None of the above
3. Mr. Patel is involved in an effort to help his students see academic success as part of their ___________. His students then exhibit greater academic achievement in their grades and behaviors.
Relational selves
Feared selves
Possible selves
Interdependent selves
4. The correspondence bias is most likely related to which of the following?
Anchoring
Prior significance
Paired distinctiveness
None of the above
5. Which of the following best describes objective self-awareness?
People recalling positive material in positive moods and sometimes recalling negative material in negative moods.
The experience of the self as the target of other's perceptions, often experiencing the self as failing to live up to ideal standards.
One's understanding of who one should be.
People coping with threats to their self-worth by endorsing other, unrelated aspects of themselves, thereby addressing self-enhancement needs.
6. Which of the following is a reason why social inference may fail to match normative models?
Social perceivers operate under efficiency pressures
Social perceivers have multiple goals
Social perceivers operate under accuracy pressures
All are correct
7. Which of the following is NOT a reference point against to which social information is often compared in social cognition research?
expected utility theory
The law of large numbers
Correlational computations
Experts' intuitions
8. _________ is/are variously defined as the array of knowledge, plans, and strategies that people use in social interactions, but sometimes just as specific social, expressive, and communicative skills.
Embedded attitudes.
Self-regulation.
Social intelligence.
Implementation mindsets.
9. Research demonstrates that directed-gaze faces:
Are easier to recall
Are seen as both likable and attractive
Are more rapidly categorized by gender
All are correct
10. If you happen to bump into an old classmate and find yourself acting exactly the way you did when you were in high school, which of the following would best describe this occurrence?
Upward social comparison
Self-regulation
Transference
None of the above
11. McGuire's (1969) model of information processing can be best described as which of the following?
Sequential
Parallel
Automatic
All of the above
12. Causal reasoning involves utilizing knowledge about:
Situational circumstances
Other people's dispositions
Similar past events
All are correct
13. Which of the following is an example of an attributional process in social cognition?
The act of planning the actions to take given a social situation
The act of reminiscing about the descriptive details of a past event or environment
The act of inferring the possible reasons why another person behaved in a particular way
None of the above
14. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
People draw trait inferences from physical attributes, including facial appearance
Facial judgments made after a 100 millisecond exposure to faces are uncorrelated to judgments made without time constraints
People can attribute dispositional characteristics to others based on very minimal cues
Rapid dispositional inferences from physical information has real-world consequences
15. Which of the following would be the best cue to rapidly direct someone's gaze to the left?
An arrow pointing left
A person who is looking to the left
A finger and hand pointing left
Displaying the word "left"
16. Which of the following neural systems are not implicated in face perception?
The fusiform face area (FFA)
The superior temporal sulcus (STS)
Medulla oblongata
All of the above
17. When could characterizing information on the basis of preexisting theories lead to inaccurate assessments?
When an individual is wary of believing that their preexisting theories are based on raw data
When the data to be considered overrules the preexisting theories
When the preexisting theories are suspect
None of the above
18. Which of the following groups has most research in social psychology focused on?
Race
Gender
Both Race and Gender
Age
19. According to the Person Memory Model, the inconsistency advantage may be limited to impressions with very ________ pieces of inconsistent information against a(n) ___________consistent information baseline
Many, extraordinarily
Few, extraordinarily
Many, sparsely
Few, sparsely
20. Which of the following models of social thinker is most strongly supported by recent research in social cognition?
Naive scientist
Activated actor
Cognitive miser
Motivated tactician
21. Which of the following is a heuristic related to estimations of position on a dimension?
Representativeness
Simulation
Availability
Anchoring
22. Which of the following emotions would be associated with an individual who is stereotyped as low on both warmth and competence
Pity
Disgust
Both A & B
Envy
23. What does prospect theory describe?
The simulation of counterfactual reasoning
The decision process involved in complex social problems
The decision process involved in comparing between different options
The decision process involved in forecasting events
24. Which of the following types of moods have been shown to most often facilitate helping behavior?
Negative moods, likely because people will turn to helping behavior to make themselves feel better.
Positive moods, likely because people want to maintain their positive mood by helping others.
Neutral moods, likely because people are more attuned to the needs of others.
All of the above.
25. Which of the following is one of the main roots of blatant bias?
Economic threats
Internal conflict
Both A and B
None of the above