___________ is an area of social psychology that studies how individuals think within social situations. -
correct answer ✔✔Social cognition
Which of the following is a key social cue in person perception? - correct answer ✔✔The face
Pam's new friend is a librarian so Pam assumes that she is intellectual, politically liberal, shy, not very
social, and probably a vegetarian. Pam's thinking on this describes - correct answer ✔✔Stereotyping
People are trained in first aid classes to ask a specific person to call 911, rather than saying "somebody
call 911." The reason for this is to combat. - correct answer ✔✔Diffusion of responsibility
If you do well on your psychology exam, you think, "Of course I did well. It's because I'm smart."
However, if you do poorly on your exam, you blame it on the professor's inability to create a fair exam.
This illustrates the ___________ - correct answer ✔✔Self serving bias
Cognitive dissonance is the conflict that occurs when a person _______ - correct answer ✔✔holds two
contradictory attitudes or thoughts
Social ______ is the process in which individuals evaluate their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and
abilities in relation to other people - correct answer ✔✔Comparison
When asked about your attitude toward exercise, you think, "Well, I work out 3 times a week at 5:30
a.m., so I must like it." This illustrates the ______ theory. - correct answer ✔✔self-perception
Yasuko finds Leonardo DiCaprio very attractive, so his social media posts about environmentalism
produce ______ attitude change than the ones she sees that her ecology professor (a 70-year-old man)
posts. - correct answer ✔✔greater
, When a person makes an unreasonably large request first and then makes the smaller, actual request,
the person is using which technique for persuasion? - correct answer ✔✔door-in-the-face
People of ____ tend to be more likely to help others - correct answer ✔✔lower socioeconomic status
Which of the following occur when a person feels that something or someone is attempting to control
them, and the person is rejecting these attempts? - correct answer ✔✔Reactance
Which of the following is true about the Stanford Prison Experiment as per Zimbardo's account? - correct
answer ✔✔The prisoners became docile and lost their sense of self.
In Milgram's classic obedience study, what percent of participants eventually used the highest setting on
the shock generator to shock the learner? - correct answer ✔✔65%
Who is the father of psychoanalysis? - correct answer ✔✔Freud
Jacob, a three-year-old boy, enjoys spending time with his mother and has temper tantrums when his
father returns home from work. He seems to also get upset at bedtime when he's put in his own bed for
the night. According to Freud, this boy is displaying ________. - correct answer ✔✔the Oedipus
complex.
In a criticism of Freud, Horney suggested that __________________________ - correct answer ✔✔both
sexes envy the attributes of the other
Allport and Odbert identified 16 traits by narrowing down a list of 18,000 words used to describe people
in a _________ - correct answer ✔✔dictionary
The psychologist who created the CAPS model and criticized the idea of constancy of behavior is
___________ - correct answer ✔✔Mischel
Rick has been distressed over a long period of time. He has had problems coping with life and relating to
people. He tries to avoid meeting people, as he thinks his breathing can be dangerous for others. He also
believes that washing his face seven times an hour will keep him healthy. Rick meets all the criteria for
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