Final Flashcards
Dr. Plante believes that all dishes containing cilantro will taste disgusting. One evening, he eats a delicious curry dish prepared by his friend, Chris. Chris tells Dr. Plante that the curry contained cilantro. As a result, Dr. Plante decides that while most dishes containing cilantro are disgusting, cilantro is fine in curry. This change in Dr. Plante’s “cilantro schema” is an example of…
Accomodation
statements best summarizes research by Dunning & Kruger on the relationship between confidence and performance?
The least-skilled people are the most overconfident in their abilities, making them the least accurate in judging their performance.
In Bandura & Walters’ 1959 study, children watched an adult hit a Bobo doll. Later, the children were put in a room to play with toys, including the Bobo doll. The study found that…
The children were more likely to hit the doll when they saw the adult get rewarded for doing so, and less likely to hit the doll when they saw the adult get punished for it.
In their 1985 study, Emde, Campos, & Klinnert put mothers on one side of a see-through table and their baby on the other side. The transparent glass gave the illusion of a cliff in front of the baby. The mothers were then asked to look at their infants with different facial expressions. The results showed that
Infants used the mother’s facial expressions as a sign for whether it was safe to cross the table.
Professor Farnsworth slips and nearly falls in the shower. Luckily, he managed to catch himself on the towel rack. He notices, as he stands back up and tries to relax from the startling event, that his heart is still pounding, even though the danger is over. According to the General Adaption Syndrome…
Farnsworth should feel somewhat exhausted and be less able to cope with stress for awhile.
Leela has been working out on the gym – her heart is racing and she is in a high state of physiological arousal as she leaves the gym. On the way back to her car, she passes her friend, Amy, who has been relaxing in the park. At that moment, Leela and Amy both see an advertisement for a scary movie. According to research on misattribution of arousal…
Leela will feel more fear than Amy, due to her still-elevated heart rate and lingering arousal.
Which of the following statements about emotions and behaviours are true based on empirical research?
Showing people angry-looking faces increases peoples’ tendency to engage in avoidance-related behaviours.
People adjust their own emotional expressions to complement those of others – such as showing sympathy in response to displays of distress
proposed function of emotions in humans?
They allow us to make fairly quick decisions with minimal need for deliberation
They serve as a way of signaling important information, such as encouraging desired behaviour in others
They are embedded within cultural systems that allow us to coordinate large groups of people in an organized, stable manner
Leon Festinger’s social comparison theory argues that the main reason people compare themselves to others is to…
Evaluate themselves and gain a better understanding of their skills, abilities, and beliefs
Having a complex self-concept is _____________ because it _________________.
Beneficial / allows people to strategically switch their focus away from negative parts of themselves onto positive parts of themselves
Give an example or two of implicit egoism
I’m asian, I tend to root for asians teams in the
football world cup.
My name is Vimean and when I see the detergent brand Vim.. I kinda like it.
Donna did well on her exam. Which of the following attributions best describes Donna’s belief that she passed the exam because she got lucky and the exam was easy?
An external, unstable attribution
Based on research on entity and incremental theorists, after a failure (i.e., losing a game)…
Incremental theorists should be more motivated than entity theorists to keep trying because incremental theorists believe they can get better.
Which of the following is an example of an attitude (as social psychologists conceptualize the term)?
Charlotte has hated spiders as long as she can remember.
In Festinger & Carlsmith’s 1959 study – where they paid college students to lie about doing a very boring task – the results can be explained by cognitive dissonance. How?
The people paid $1 to lie felt the most dissonance for lying and reduced it by convincing themselves that they enjoyed the study.
