week 23

Question 1

In Social Psychology, the relationship between people and the situation is considered to be:

Answer 1

dynamic

Question 2

Belief system that emphasizes the duties and obligations that each person has toward others.

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Collectivism

Question 3

A pattern of shared meaning and behavior among a group of people that is passed from one generation to the next.

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Culture

Question 4

Belief system that exalts freedom, independence, and individual choice as high values.

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Individualism

Question 5

The joint influence of person variables and situational variables.

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Person-situation interaction

Question 6

The study of how people think about the social world.

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Social cognition

Question 7

The process through which other people change our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and through which we change theirs.

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Social influence

Question 8

The study of how our social behavior both influences and is influenced by the activities of our brain.

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Social neuroscience

Question 9

The ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that are shared by group members and perceived by them as appropriate

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Social norms

Question 10

The people with whom we interact every day

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Social situation

Question 11

The perception or actuality that we have a social network that can help us in times of need and provide us with a variety of useful resources

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Social support

Question 12

Attitudes are:

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an evaluation of something

Question 13

“I love dogs!” This statement demonstrates which component of attitudes?

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Affective

Question 14

Jo has a positive attitude toward getting up early to exercise. Even though this attitude is positive, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour, unless Jo also has the following, they are less likely to follow through on getting up early to exercise.

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intentions

Question 15

Persuasive communicators may have the following characteristics, except:

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they speak slowly

Question 16

____________ message processing is associated with long lasting attitude change.

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Thoughtful

Question 17

_____________: giving people a chance to develop a resistance to persuasion by reminding them that they might someday receive a persuasive message

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forewarning

Question 18

___________: building up defenses against persuasion by mildly attacking the attitude position

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inoculation

Question 19

A psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor.

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Attitude

Question 20

The importance of an attitude, as assessed by how quickly it comes to mind

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Attitude strength

Question 21

Perceived as trustworthy because they know a lot about the product they are selling

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Expert communicators

Question 22

Those who tend to attempt to blend into the social situation in order to be liked

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High self-monitors

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Those who are less likely to attempt to blend into the social situation in order to be liked

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Low self-monitors

Question 24

Occurs when a message, such as an advertisement or another image of a brand, is presented to the consumer without the person being aware that a message has been presented

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Subliminal advertising

Question 25

The relationship between attitudes and behavior is stronger in certain situations, for certain people and for certain attitudes

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Theory of planned behavior

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Attitude change that occurs over time

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The sleeper effect

Question 27

To increase his self-esteem Sam chooses to play in a tennis league with players who are less skilled them himself. This is an example of:

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Downward Social Comparison

Question 28

When golfing, Jill plays better when her teammates are watching than when she is by herself. This is an example of:

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Social Facilitation

Question 29

The manager at the movie theater notices that a crew of 4 cleans a theater as quickly as a crew of 6. This is possibly due to ______.

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social loafing

Question 30

fMRI brain scans of people who were excluded from groups showed:

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Responses similar to physical pain

Question 31

An executive board makes a risky decision based on the CEO’s recommendation. ______ occurred because members did not speak out about their concerns.

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Groupthink

Question 32

The tendency for groups to spend more time discussing information that all members know (shared information) and less time examining information that only a few members know (unshared).

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Common knowledge effect

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Excluding one or more individuals from a group by reducing or eliminating contact with the person, usually by ignoring, shunning, or explicitly banishing them.

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Ostracism

Question 34

______is a term for an emotional bias that involves an evaluation of people based merely on their membership in a given group.

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Prejudice

Question 35

______biases are those that are unintended, immediate, and irresistible.

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Automatic