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To understand humans, one needs only to know about environmental rewards and punishments. This statement would most likely be endorsed by a strict ~~> behaviorist Several presidents have been given conflicting advice during wartime. Some advisers urged the president to pursue a peaceful...

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PSY 3304 Review Questions & 100%
Correct Answers
To understand humans, one needs only to know about environmental

rewards and punishments. This statement would most likely be endorsed by a

strict

✓ ~~> behaviorist




Several presidents have been given conflicting advice during wartime. Some

advisers urged the president to pursue a peaceful solution; others urged him

to escalate bombing to overcome the enemy. These presidents did not want

to go down in history as the first U.S. president to lose a war, so they have

chosen to escalate, thereby prolonging the war. According to your text, this

decision was most likely a consequence of the motive to

✓ ~~> justify previous actions




Why is a scientific approach preferable to reliance on folk wisdom and

common sense?

✓ ~~> Folk wisdom and common sense are filled with contradictions




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Sometimes when we encounter behavior that is unpleasant or unexpected,

we assume that something about the person—and not the situation—caused

the behavior. In this sense, lay people are most like

✓ ~~> personality psychologists




Professor Jaffrey believes that children learn to be polite when they are

rewarded for saying things like "please" and "thank you." Professor Jaffrey is

most likely a ________ psychologist

✓ ~~> behavioral




The social cognition approach compares people to amateur

✓ ~~> detectives




You've heard that members of a certain fraternity or sorority are snobs.

Whenever you see members of that fraternity or sorority, you look down and

hurry past them. When they don't greet you, you say to yourself, "Just like I

thought—they're all arrogant snobs." You have experienced a phenomenon

known as

✓ ~~> the self-fulfilling prophecy




Which of the following questions is most likely to be asked by a social

psychologist?


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✓ ~~> What situations cause people to behave rudely?




How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in

Jonestown?

✓ ~~> People who have traits of being unstable are more likely to join

cults.




Rahid's server in the restaurant just can't seem to get his order right. If Rahid

has just read Chapter 1 on social influence and is thinking more like a social

psychologist than before, what would he be most likely to think?

✓ ~~> "This person must have had a bad morning."




According to the definition of social psychology presented in your text, social

psychology is the study of how ________ affect the thoughts, feelings, and

behaviors of humans.

✓ ~~> the presence of real or imagined others




Assil has an educated guess about the social behavior of teenagers when

their high school team wins the football game. That means that she has a(n)

______ about how the teens behave.

✓ ~~> hypothesis




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Rashim is viewed by most people he knows as rude, brusque, and completely

unconcerned with other people's feelings. He, in contrast, describes himself

as efficient and task-oriented. Rahim's self-description best reflects the motive

to

✓ ~~> justify our past behavior.




The word "construal" refers to

✓ ~~> personal interpretations.




The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of

behavior in favor of personality characteristics or traits is called the

✓ ~~> fundamental attribution error.




Karen returns home from her first year of college, and is very proud of her first-

year GPA. She earned a 3.0 ("B") average. She's unhappily surprised to

discover that her parents are disappointed that she didn't perform better. This

difference in interpretation illustrates the power of ________ in explaining

social behavior.

✓ ~~> construals




Ross and colleagues (2004) randomly assigned participants previously

identified as either competitive or cooperative to one of two games: the


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