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Questions
1. Which of the following theories describes people as evaluating stimuli initially as good versus bad for them, resulting in primitive positive or negative reactions?
Stereotype content model
Bias map
Appraisal theories of emotions
Enemy images theory
2. Which of the following is a normative model for how decisions should proceed in the presence of base-rate information?
Prospect theory
Bayes' theorem
3. This chapter is titled "From Affect to Social Cognition." What aspect of affect is particularly discussed regarding its influence on cognition?
Preference.
Emotion.
Evaluation.
Mood.
4. Which social psychologist coined the term auto-motives to refer to motives automatically cued by certain situations?
John A. Bargh
B. F. Skinner
Eliot R. Smith
Daniel M. Wegner
5. What is the term used in prospect theory to describe the internal standard that people use to compare the objective value of an option in order to classify its valence?
Fantasy
Base-rate
Empathy gap
Reference point
6. Which of the following statements about heuristics is FALSE?
Heuristics are necessarily fallible
Heuristics can be both widely shared and idiosyncratic
Heuristics are common in daily life
Heuristics are more common in judgments under uncertainty
7. If we see a snake in the grass and scream or recoil, which of the following would claim that this response itself constitutes our emotions, without any cognitive role?
Facial feedback hypothesis.
James-Lange view.
Schachter & Singer's theory of emotion.
None of the above.
8. How long does it take for a person to recognize a face as a face?
1 second
100 to 200 milliseconds
500 to 600 milliseconds
None of the above
9. In the 7th grade, Rana worked tirelessly on her science fair project examining how microwave radiation affects different organisms. When the judges announced the winners of the competition, however, Rana did not place among the winners. She doesn't think she will ever get over the disappointment of not winning after all of her hard work. Her reaction is a demonstration of a:
Pollyanna effect.
Power asymmetry.
Durability bias.
Positivity offset.
10. Which of the following is a statement associated with social identity theory?
Social interactions range from the interpersonal to the intergroup
Intergroup competition arises from conflict over material resources
People tend to see ingroup members as more similar to each other, and outgroup members as more different from each other
None of the above
11. A vivid memory of your sixth birthday party would be best described as an example of which of the following?
Semantic memory
Episodic memory
Procedural memory
Declarative memory
12. Which scholar(s) proposed the PM-1 Model?
Thomas K. Srull & Robert S. Wyer
Reid Hastie
Solomon Asch
J.J. Gibson
13. The total psychological field is determined by which of the following pairs of factors?
The person and the situation
Cognition and Motivation
Both are correct
Neither a nor b
14. Short-term memory is assumed to hold about how many pieces of information at a time?
Three
Seven
Ten
Fourteen
15. Which of the following is a hypothetical neural module emerging from the functions of the left hemisphere that integrates diverse self-relevant processing to create that sense of self that most of us experience subjectively?
An interpreter
A behavioral activation system
A behavioral inhibition system
A working self-concept
16. Stereotyping is the ____________ side of integroup bias and prejudice is the ______________ side.
Affective, cognitive
Cognitive, affective
Deliberate, automatic
Cognitive, automatic
17. Which of the following brain regions is most closely associated with memory?
Thalamus
Amygdala
Superior temporal sulcus
Hippocampus
18. Which of the following best describes the las of large numbers?
Big groups working together come to conclusions that approximate nominal models more closely than small groups
Large samples are more reliable to make population inferences
Tasks with a larger number of trials lead individuals to rely more on heuristics
Tasks with a small number of trials lead individuals to rely more on heuristics
19. Which of the following demonstrates the mood manipulation in the Velten procedure?
Hypnosis.
Assuming positive or negative facial expressions.
Reading mood-relevant sentences.
Listening to mood-laden music.
20. Isabella does not chit-chat at work-she develops innovative ideas and is one of the strongest, most serious members on the team. With her friends, Isabella tells hilarious stories that get everyone laughing. This difference demonstrates which concept?
Self-schemas
Person-situation interaction
Contingencies of self-worth
Amae
21. What aspect of attitudes did the Yale persuasive communications approach emphasized?
Learning the message content
The conscious acceptance or rejection of the message
Both are correct
None of the above
22. Which of the following social cognition pioneers were most directly influenced by Gestalt psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt and Hermann Ebbinghaus
Edward L. Thorndike and B. F. Skinner
Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler
Solomon Asch and Kurt Lewin
23. When a doctor processes words related to the human anatomy, these words can be considered:
Norms
Self-guides
Non-self-schematic information
Self-schematic information
24. Which of the following combinations of structural variables and stereotype content is correct?
Status - Competence / Competition - Warmth
Competition - Competence / Status - Warmth
Envy - Competence / Pity - Warmth
Pity - Competence / Envy - Warmth
25. Which of the following statements is most likely to describe Tracy's life after completing her degree in gender studies?
Tracy becomes a bank teller
Tracy becomes a bank teller and a feminism activist
All of the above are equally likely
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