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These are practice questions with answers at the end of the document about the first 8 chapter of the book Social Psychology by Smith, Mackie and Claypool. My prof gave these questions to study the material for the exam.

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Questions Chapter 3
1. What is a mental representation?
2. Which cues do we use when forming a first impression?
3. What is salience? Why is it relevant?
4. In what ways does accessibility influence social perception?
5. What is the correspondence bias?
a. How was it investigated?
6. When does the correspondence bias not occur?
7. What is attribution?
8. What is the co-variation model of attribution of Kelley?
9. What is discounting?
10. What is the difference between: primacy effect, perseverance bias, confirmation bias
& self-fulfilling prophecy?
11. When does the SFP fail to occur?
12. How do we integrate multiple traits?
13. How do we process inconsistent information?
14. How can we prevent bias in impression formation?
15. (How) does motivation ensure more accurate first impressions?
16. What are cross-cultural differences in attribution?


Questions Chapter 4
1. What two parts make up the self?
2. What information do we use to form the self-concept?
3. What is the difference between self-perception theory and social comparison theory?
4. What is assimilation & contrast?
5. What is the difference between the actor-observer effect & the correspondence bias?
6. What are self-aspects & self-schemata?
7. What is self-complexity?
8. What is an independent and interdependent self?
9. How do we maintain a coherent self-image in the event of conflicting information?
10. Wat is motivated scepticism?
11. What is the sociometer model of self-esteem?
12. What is the self-esteem myth? (Extra article used at the UvA).
13. What is an appraisal?
14. What is the self- discrepancy theory?
15. What is the regulatory focus theory?
16. What is the difference between problem focused and emotion focused coping?
17. What is self-affirmation?


Questions Chapter 5
1. What is the difference between stereotypes, prejudices & discrimination?

, 2. What is a social group?
3. What is social categorisation?
a. What are the effects of SC on the differences we observe between people?
4. Why do we form stereotypes?
a. Why are stereotypes often negative?
5. What is illusory correlation?
6. Does more motivation result in a stereotyped or biased image of someone?
7. What is the just-world belief?
8. How are stereotypes activated?
a. How is this investigated?
9. Do implicit measures reflect someone's "real" prejudices?
a. Is being biased inevitable given negative implicit associations?
10. What is the role of capacity in the extent to which people judge based on
stereotypes?
11. How can inconsistent information cause a stereotype to change?


Questions Chapter 6
1. What is a social identity?
2. What makes a social identity salient?
3. What is the influence of social identity on perception?
4. What is BIRG?
5. What is optimal distinctiveness?
6. What is the influence of social identity on the perception of fellow group members?
7. What is the outgroup homogeneity effect?
a. How was this investigated?
8. What is a minimal intergroup situation?
9. What does Social Identity Theory predict about appreciation for the ingroup vs
hostility to the outgroup?
10. How can we deal with a negative social identity?
a. External attribution
b. Social comparison within ingroup
c. Individual mobility: Disidentification & Dissociation
d. Social creativity & social competition



Questions Chapter 7
1. What is the difference between implicit and explicit attitudes?
2. What are the functions of attitudes?
3. What kind of information do attitudes contain?
4. What is the role, valence, salience & accessibility of information in shaping attitudes?
5. What is a strong attitude?
6. What is evaluative conditioning?
7. What are these heuristics: familiarity, attractiveness, expertise, message length?
8. What are the four steps in the systematic processing of information in attitude
formation?
9. What is the Elaboration Likelihood Model?

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