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Many individuals are discovering that cyber-relationships, including friendships and
romances, are easier to initiate and sustain than they might have anticipated. From the
perspective of social psychology, what makes these relationships so 'real'? - ANSWER
Functional distance: There is a high amount of interaction between the individuals
involved.
Shania notices that all of her high school friends have started wearing glitter eye
shadow to school. She doesn't really like the look but she wants to fit in with the crowd,
so she starts wearing it too. Shania has engaged in __________. - ANSWER Conformity
The ________ component of love consists of physiological and emotional arousal. It may
include physical attraction, emotional responses that provoke physiological events, and
sexual arousal. - ANSWER Passion
Under which of the following circumstances would you expect a person to display the
greatest amount of conformity in Solomon Asch's research protocol? - ANSWER
Orlando has to give his choice out loud
What is the difference between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination? - ANSWER
Stereotypes are based on beliefs, prejudice is based on emotions, and discrimination is
based on behavior.
Purposely hurting another person's social relationships, acceptance, or inclusion in a
group is called ________ aggression. - ANSWER Relational
In the case of Alice's Hotel, it was observed that they had been spending a great deal of
money on water and electricity used for washing linens (towels, sheets, and pillow
cases). In order to reduce this cost, the owner wishes to encourage guests to reuse
linens for more than one day. What might be a good way to do this? - ANSWER Leave a
, note on the bed saying that most of their guests reuse linens, and asking this guest to do
the same as well.
When you evaluate individuals from other cultures based on your own cultural
background, assuming it is the standard for what is "right" or "good," then you are using
________ bias in making your judgment. - ANSWER Ethnocentric
Marco and Kenny are hosting an exchange student in their house. They are living in the
United States, and she lives in Spain. They realize she doesn't do much laundry and that
she wears clothes two to three times before she actually washes them. They try to make
sense of these behaviors from a cultural standpoint. These men are showing a high
degree of cultural ________. - ANSWER Intelligence
When Lev goes out to lunch at a restaurant he sees a woman who has very short hair,
facial piercings, and a number of tattoos. He thinks to himself, "She must be into
motorcycles." Lev has engaged in the process of __________. - ANSWER Social
Categorization
Sometimes an individual looks to others for cues about whether or not assistance
should be provided in an ambiguously helpless situation. When this bystander
mistakenly decides that no help is necessary, this is referred to as ________ ignorance. -
ANSWER Pluralistic
Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning blatant biases? - ANSWER Those
individuals who overtly despise one group of people tend to despise others as well.
Javari is teaching a class in psychology and he tells his students, "Kenna is 31, single,
outspoken, and bright. She majored in philosophy in college. As a student, Kenna was
deeply concerned with discrimination and other social issues." At that point Javari
asked his class if it was more likely that Kenna was A) a bank teller or B) a bank teller
AND a feminist. The majority in his class chose option B. Javari explained that their
answer was wrong because their _____________ heuristic led them astray. - ANSWER
Representativeness
Jeremiah knows his roommate Hank has a financial problem, but he really does not want
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