Quiz 1

Question 1

By joining this support group, I take the following pledges:

Answer 1

Admit the possibility of being a parb, reserve judgment of fellow parbs, carefully interpret any negative statement from emails, messages, and tweets, not to rely on second-hand information for big decisions, and that I may never know the reasons for the behaviors of others.

Question 2

Why are misinterpretations so common in texting?

Answer 2

Lack of back and forth communication, and absence of nonverbal cues.

Question 3

What are the three areas of social psychology?

Answer 3

Social thinking, influence, and relations. These are all interdependent.

Question 4

According to lectures, what are three core topics discussed in our book?

Answer 4

Cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory, and attribution theory.

Question 5

Cognitive Dissonance

Answer 5

discomfort caused by inconsistency of incoming information and current beliefs/values.

Question 6

Social Comparison Theory

Answer 6

There is a drive in individuals to gain accurate self-evaluations. They evaluate their own opinions and beliefs by comparing themselves to others in order to reduce uncertainty in these domains.

Question 7

Attribution Theory

Answer 7

One tries to understand the behavior of others by attributing feelings, beliefs, and intentions to them. You project feelings onto them and try to understand them that way.

Question 8

The more severe/embarrassing the initiation, the more you’ll love the group.

Answer 8

True.

Question 9

Is personality stable and enduring over time?

Answer 9

Personality psychologists say yes, that “personality” is responsible for behavior. Social psychologists say no, that “situations” are responsible for beahvior. The answer is a little bit…

Question 10

High levels of what traits might reduce the FAE?

Answer 10

Empathy and logical thinking.

Question 11

What are the two major connections between social and clinical psych?

Answer 11

Rationalization (external justification) and projection (social comparison).

Question 12

Women are more likely than men to feel strongly that they want to become parents.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Compared with men, women touch each other more while they are talking to one another.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

The less severe an initiation is into a group, the more you will like the group.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

In the Olympics, a silver-medal winner would be happier than a bronze-medal winner.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

A person with low self-esteem would prefer to hang out with people who like him/her.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Most poor people are poor because they don’t want to work hard.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

what is the illusion of insight?

Answer 18

nonverbal decoding that doesn’t always work.

Question 19

Culture

Answer 19

Enduring behaviors, attitudes, and values shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Question 20

Hindsight bias

Answer 20

The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen have something turned out.

Question 21

Field research

Answer 21

Research done in natural, real life settings outside the laboratory.

Question 22

Correlational research

Answer 22

The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables.

Question 23

Framing

Answer 23

The way a question or an issue this post; framing can influence people’s decisions and expressed opinions.

Question 24

Mundane realism

Answer 24

Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to every day situations.

Question 25

Experimental realism

Answer 25

Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants.