Social Psych Basics

Question 1

The mental representations of knowledge about concepts or stimuli are known as:

Answer 1

Schemas

Question 2

Salience, priming and accessibility all assist in which psychological phenomenon?

Answer 2

Schemas

Question 3

_______ is the property of a schema that grabs attention and helps us decide the most important part of a stimulus:

Answer 3

Salience

Question 4

The constant exposure of a stimulus that makes a schema more likely to occur is known as:

Answer 4

Priming

Question 5

If I walked to campus through the botanical gardens every single day, I am likely to know that I will see trees and flowers every time. This is the result of:

Answer 5

Accessibility schemas

Question 6

The Kuleshov effect is an example of ______

Answer 6

Priming

Question 7

Wyer & Srull (1979) asked participants to create sentences from jumbled hostile or neutral words, then interpret a passage & rate Donald. What was found from this study?

Answer 7

Hostile-primed stimuli will be judged more negatively than neutral-primed stimuli.

Question 8

Alfred Hitchcock commonly used the film technique by which impressions of characters could be made by interspersing images. This is know as the ________:

Answer 8

Kuleshov Effect

Question 9

Concepts that have a disproportionate influence on impressions of others are known as what?

Answer 9

Central traits

Question 10

Trait, person, self, role, event, group and “content-free” are all types of what?

Answer 10

Schemas

Question 11

The idea that France is a romantic country, trees typically have green leaves and dogs often bark are examples of:

Answer 11

Schemas

Question 12

Schemas reside primarily in which part of the brain?

Answer 12

Prefrontal cortex

Question 13

Schemas are useful when helping us predict future events, saving energy when information gets complicated and when we are tired. True or false?

Answer 13

True

Question 14

_______ refers to the idea that existing schemas change on the basis of new information:

Answer 14

Accomodation

Question 15

______ refers to the idea that schemas are changed to fit within existing knowledge:

Answer 15

Assimilation

Question 16

I believe Australians are rude and confrontational. Then I meet Sam, who is friendly and reserved. When I learn that Sam is Australian, I then decide that Australians are all friendly and reserved. This is an example of:

Answer 16

Accomodation

Question 17

I dislike eating chicken. My mum cooks a meal with chicken and it tastes amazing. However, I decide that this is not because chicken tastes good, but because it was cooked a certain way. I continue to dislike chicken unless it is cooked by my mum. This is an example of:

Answer 17

Assimilation

Question 18

The tendency to seek & favour information that confirms what we already believe is known as:

Answer 18

Confirmation bias

Question 19

Kastenmuller et al. (2010) found that confirmation bias was stronger among people from _____ cultures as opposed to _____ cultures.

Answer 19

Individualist; collectivist

Question 20

Schemas have a ________ nature:

Answer 20

Self-fulfilling

Question 21

“Schemas” & “attitudes” are interchangeable concepts. True or false?

Answer 21

False