PSYC2301 Collin College -General Psychology 2301 Chapter 14 questions and answers

General Psychology 2301 Chapter 14social psychology - correct answer The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others attitudes - correct answer Evaluations of a particular person, behavior, belief, or concept central route processing - correct answer Message interpretation characterized by thoughtful consideration of the issues and arguments used to persuade peripheral route processing - correct answer Message interpretation characterized by consideration of the source and related general information rather than of the message itself cognitive dissonance - correct answer The conflict that occurs when a person holds two contradictory attitudes or thoughts (referred to as cognitions) social cognition - correct answer The cognitive processes by which people understand and make sense of others and themselves schemas - correct answer Organized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new information is interpreted, stored, and recalled central traits - correct answer The major traits considered in forming impressions of others attribution theory - correct answer The theory of personality that seeks to explain how we decide, on the basis of samples of an individual's behavior, what the specific causes of that person's behavior are situational causes (of behavior) - correct answer Perceived causes of behavior that are based on environmental factors