P/S MCAT 03

Question 1

What status is involuntarily assigned to an individual based on demographics

Answer 1

ascribed status

Question 2

what status is voluntarily earned by an individual?

Answer 2

achieved status

Question 3

By which status is an individual primarily identified?

Answer 3

master status

Question 4

A set of beliefs, values, norms that define the expectations of a certain status in a social situation is?

Answer 4

role

Question 5

What happens when one has difficulty in satisfying the requirements of multiple roles simultaneously?

Answer 5

role conflict

Question 6

what occurs when one has difficulty satisfying multiple requirements of the same role simultaneously?

Answer 6

role strain

Question 7

Which group contain strong emotional bonds?

Answer 7

primary group

Question 8

A group unified by feelings of togetherness due to shared beliefs, ancestry or geography is?

Answer 8

Gemeinschaft (community)

Question 9

A group unified by mutual self-interests in achieving a goal

Answer 9

Gesellschaft (society)

Question 10

what self-presentation model states that emotions are solely based on the situational context of social interactions?

Answer 10

social construction model

Question 11

what are display rules

Answer 11

They are rules that govern the expression of emotion

Question 12

a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.

Answer 12

cultural bound syndrome

Question 13

The maintenance of a public image, which is accomplished through various strategies is?

Answer 13

impression management

Question 14

a persuasive technique involving the use of flattery and conformity to win over someone else is called

Answer 14

ingratiation

Question 15

an impression management strategy involving the use of excuses to account for questionable behavior is?

Answer 15

aligning actions

Question 16

imposing an identity onto another person is termed?

Answer 16

alter-casting

Question 17

A kind of attachment that requires a consistent caregiver is? where the child shows preference for the care giver

Answer 17

secure attachment

Question 18

A situation where the child shows no preference for the caregiver due to apathy from the caregiver has?

Answer 18

avoidant attachment

Question 19

what is ambivalent attachment?

Answer 19

a caregiver’s inconsistent response to a child leaves the child feeling ambivalent after the care giver returns from absence

Question 20

what is disorganized attachment?

Answer 20

When a caregiver is abusive and the child has no response in their presence or absence

Question 21

What theory states that people make assumptions about how different types of people, their traits, and their behavior are related? It refers to a person’s notions about which characteristics tend to co-occur in others

Answer 21

implicit personality theory

Question 22

What term describes when first impressions are more important than subsequent impressions?

Answer 22

primacy effect

Question 23

When the most recent information about someone is most important in forming our impressions, that is?

Answer 23

recency effect

Question 24

What occurs when the judgements of an individual’s character can be affected by the overall impression of the individual?

Answer 24

halo effect

Question 25

The tendency to believe that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people is?

Answer 25

the just-world hypothesis

Question 26

The fact that individuals will view their own successes as being based on internal factors, while viewing failures as being based on external factors is?

Answer 26

the self-serving bias

Question 27

The bias toward making dispositional attributions rather than situational attributions in regard to the action of other is?

Answer 27

fundamental attribution error/correspondence bias/attribution effect

Question 28

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 28

A process where we have expectations that create an environment where stereotypes are confirmed

Question 29

The concern or anxiety about confirming a negative stereotype about one’s group is?

Answer 29

stereotype threat

Question 30

An irrational positive or negative attitude towards something before experiencing it or them is?

Answer 30

prejudice