Social Psyc Exam 2

The tendency to think that other people are more susceptible to attributional biases in their thinking than we are

Who is most likely to describe themselves accordingly: "I have blue eyes and brown hair, two sisters, I hate vegies."

Blaming the victim is often because of _

By what age have humans demonstrated development of self-concept?

__ information addresses the extent to which the same person responds similarly to different stimuli

Which of the following is one of the most powerful determinants of human behavior?

When people state an opinion that they don't actually believe in, they are engaging in _

According to the textbook, cancer patients engage in _ in order to feel more optimistic

__ refers to the dissonance we feel after choosing between 2+ alternatives

_ explains why giving children large rewards for reading may actually backfire

Simone runs simply because it gives her pleasure to exercise outside and leave her daily worries behind. She is _ to run

The process of decoding nonverbal communications and also using schemas are both examples of __ processes

According to the textbook, threats of severe punishment ultimately teach people _

Which of the following is not considered a nonverbal behavior?

According to the authors of your text, how people communicate - intentionally or unintentionally - without words is _

The Rockets softboll team lost their game. The coach is likely to say _ ?

When our behavior conflicts with our attitudes, it can lead to _

__ theory describes how people explain the causes of their own and others' behaviors

In order to gauge whether he has studied enough, Markus texts two of his classmates to ask how long they studied

Zoe is described as a "nerd." Based on this, you assume shes awkward, introverted, unpopular - this info makes up your _

You recently learned eating avocados, which you love, is bad for your health. How may you reduce this dissonance?

Based on the Ben Franklin effect, you are most likely to increase your liking for Tony when _

People who have an independent view of self are likely from _ while those who have an interdependent view are from _

_ are culture-specific norms that dictate what kinds of emotional expressions are allowed.

The two factors necessary to experience an emotion according to Schachter’s two-factor theory of emotion are

Social tuning is the process by which people _

When people make the fundamental attribution error, they tend to _

A girl on an Olympic team from Japan who just won is most likely to say _

_ information is the extent to which a person acts in a similar way in a similar situation

Which of the following is NOT one of the six universal emotions?

Zoe forms a circle with her thumb & forefinger to communicate to her sister that everything is ok. What gesture is this?

A student arrives late to class. Jill assumes the student overslept (_), while Jack thinks the student had traffic (_).

People engage in self-handicapping strategies in order to avoid __

When we think about how a group of other people responds in a similar/dissimilar way to the same stimulus

Which of the following circumstances would a person want to avoid self-awareness?

Don is running late for work. Making an internal attribution, we may assume __

Tendency to infer people's behavior corresponds to or matches their personality is known as

Which is NOT a typical way to reduce cognitive dissonance?

Students in the US seldom applaud after a lecture, but in Europe students often applaud. This reflects the power of _

Talia loves animals but still eats meat. When she experiences dissonance, she tells herself that she also volunteers

People in Eastern cultures are more likely to make _ attributions while those in Western cultures make _ attributions

When we make self-serving attributions, we tend to attribute our success to _ factors and our failures to _ factors

_ is the process of looking inward to examine our thoughts, feelings, and motives

To reduce CD, people often change something about themselves as a means of reducing cognitive dissonance. This is an _

_ refers to the tendency to increase liking for something you worked hard to attain.

Self-perception theory argues when our attitudes or feelings aren't clear, we infer them through observing

Attempting to get others to see you as you want to be seen is the definition of _

People are unlikely to change their attitudes after saying something they don’t truly believe if there is _ for the lie.