PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 11 SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
1. Social Psychology
*Answer√√ The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people.
2. Bystander effect
*Answer√√ The tendency for an individual to be less likely to help in an emergency when other people
are present.
3. Social Cognition
*Answer√√ The area of psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social
information. The way in which individuals think in social situations.
4. Person Perception
*Answer√√ Refers to the processes by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of others.
5. Stereotype
*Answer√√ A generalization about a group's characteristics that does not consider any variations from one
individual to another.
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, 6. True or False: In a study on physical attractiveness, researchers found that
participants rated individual faces as more attractive than faces that were
created by averaging up to 32 other faces.
*Answer√√ False
7. theory 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.
*Answer√√ Attribution
8. The attribution error is the tendency to explain the behavior of
others in terms of their personalities rather than aspects of the situation.
*Answer√√ Fun-damental
9. The self-serving refers to the tendency to take credit for one's own
successes and to deny responsibility for one's own failures.*Answer√√ Bias
10. are cognitive shortcuts that enable us to make decisions rapid-
ly.
*Answer√√ Heuristics
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PSYCHOLOGY
1. Social Psychology
*Answer√√ The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people.
2. Bystander effect
*Answer√√ The tendency for an individual to be less likely to help in an emergency when other people
are present.
3. Social Cognition
*Answer√√ The area of psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social
information. The way in which individuals think in social situations.
4. Person Perception
*Answer√√ Refers to the processes by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of others.
5. Stereotype
*Answer√√ A generalization about a group's characteristics that does not consider any variations from one
individual to another.
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, 6. True or False: In a study on physical attractiveness, researchers found that
participants rated individual faces as more attractive than faces that were
created by averaging up to 32 other faces.
*Answer√√ False
7. theory 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.
*Answer√√ Attribution
8. The attribution error is the tendency to explain the behavior of
others in terms of their personalities rather than aspects of the situation.
*Answer√√ Fun-damental
9. The self-serving refers to the tendency to take credit for one's own
successes and to deny responsibility for one's own failures.*Answer√√ Bias
10. are cognitive shortcuts that enable us to make decisions rapid-
ly.
*Answer√√ Heuristics
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