Exam (elaborations) Psy 3790 Social Psychology
PYC4803 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 (785738) - DUE 26 July 2024 Course Social Psychology (PYC4803) Institution University Of South Africa (Unisa) Book Social Psychology
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PYC3701: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT 01: for Semester 1
SEMESTER UNIQUE NUMBER: 564929
(8.6 The assignments
8.6.1 Appendix A - Assignment 01 for Semester 1)
Name: ***
Student Number: ***
1. The process during which we interpret, analyse, remember, and use information
about the social world is known as - - - - -.
1. encoding
2. automatic processing
3. social cognition
4. schemas
Answer 3
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 55 +
Study Guide, Study Unit 2.4, page 5.
2. One way to manage information overload is to make use of - - - - -.
1. mental shortcuts such as heuristics
2. the anchoring and adjustment stratagem
3. automatic priming
4. the complexity schema
Answer 1
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 57
3. Decisions made on the basis of the representativeness heuristic may be flawed
because they tend to ignore information about - - - - -.
1. base rates
2. schemas
3. rational processing schemes
4. The process whereby we seek to know and understand others is called - - - - -,
and frequently makes use of - - - - -.
1. social awareness; not really caring about people
2. social attribution; impression management
3. social perception; nonverbal communication
4. social consistency; correspondence bias
Answer 3
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 91-92
+ Study Guide, Study Unit 3.1, page 9.
5. We might think that a waiter who flirts with a customer does so because be likes to
flirt if we notice that other waiters avoid flirting with that customer. This best
represents the concept of low - - - - -.
1. nonconunon effect
2. consensus
3. consistency
4. distinctiveness
Answer 2
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 3, page 106 +
South African Supplement to Social Psychology, 3rd Edition,
(Textbook), page 10.
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