PYC3701/101/3/2021
● Remember to use your correct student number and the correct unique number.
● Where an assignment involves the use of a MARK READING SHEET, read the section
“INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF MARK READING SHEETS” in Study@Unisa.
● Students who do not have access to the internet must complete their assignments on a mark
reading sheet provided with your study material.
8.6 The assignments
8.6.1 Appendix A - Assignment 01 for Semester 1
Assignment 01 for Semester 1
Closing date: 19 March 2021
Unique Number: 564929
Remember the following:
● Use only an HB pencil (not a ‘pacer’) and mark your answers clearly as follows: [–]
● If you mark a block incorrectly, make sure that the mark is erased properly.
Do not staple your mark reading sheet to any document.
1. The process during which we interpret, analyse, remember, and use information about the
social world is known as - - - - -.
1. encoding
2. automatic processing
3. social cognition
4. schemas
2. One way to manage information overload is to make use of - - - - -.
1. mental shortcuts such as heuristics
2. the anchoring and adjustment stratagem
3. automatic priming
4. the complexity schema
3. Decisions made on the basis of the representativeness heuristic may be flawed because they
tend to ignore information about - - - - -.
1. base rates
2. schemas
3. rational processing schemes
4. automatic priming
4. The process whereby we seek to know and understand others is called - - - - -, and frequently
makes use of - - - - -.
1. social awareness; not really caring about people
2. social attribution; impression management
3. social perception; nonverbal communication
4. social consistency; correspondence bias
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,5. We might think that a waiter who flirts with a customer does so because be likes to flirt if we
notice that other waiters avoid flirting with that customer. This best represents the concept of low
- - - - -.
1. nonconunon effect
2. consensus
3. consistency
4. distinctiveness
6. Members of collectivistic cultures are more likely to recognize more of the situational
determinants of behaviour than are members of individualistic cultures. As a result,
members of collectivist societies are - - - - -
1. somewhat less likely to make the fundamental attribution error.
2. a great deal more likely to make the fundamental attribution error.
3. unaware of the fundamental attribution error.
4. somewhat more likely to make the fundamental attribution error.
7. Socially introverted individuals who use Facebook or other online social programs tend to - - - - -
1. not be able to transfer their online personas into the real world.
2. create completely unattainable identities online.
3. become more introverted because their social interaction is only occurring online.
4. benefit from receiving validation of a possible self and may improve social success offline.
8. Introspection is an effective means of understanding ourselves when the - - - - -
1. individual is attempting to understand the reasons for his or her feelings about something
important.
2. focus is on unconscious affective factors.
3. focus is on a conscious decision-making process.
4. individual displays an introverted personality configuration.
9. George was listening as a friend described him to someone else on the telephone. His friend’s
description included “friendly, taller, active” and similar terms. As a result, George is now
probably thinking of himself in terms of - - - - -.
1. collectivist relationships
2. indeterminant relationships
3. intergroup comparisons
4. intragroup comparisons
10. Attitudes are - - - - -
1. the mechanism we use to reduce dissonance.
2. the mechanism we can use to protect ourselves from unwanted views of ourselves.
3. the process by which we adjust or adapt our behaviour to particular circumstances.
4. our evaluations of different aspects of the social world.
11. According to the process of instrumental conditioning behaviour will be displayed often by an
individual if - - - - -.
1. it is reinforced
2. the individual sees a role model perform the action
3. it is ignored
4. it is preceded by a pleasant subliminal stimulus
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12. An anti-smoking advertisement that features photographs of diseased lungs, people using
oxygen tanks to offset the effects of lung disease, and funerals, but does not include information
about quitting smoking, is likely to be ineffective because it will probably - - - - -.
1. induce too much fear
2. induce a desire to smoke more among some people
3. trivialize the consequences of smoking
4. create cognitive dissonance in viewers
13. Prejudice can be - - - - - or - - - - -.
1. cognitive; subtle
2. blatant; subtle
3. affective; evaluative
4. affective; well-reasoned
14. One result of tokenism is that it - - - - -
1. can damage the self-esteem and confidence of tokenised individuals.
2. increases the likelihood of minority group protests.
3. increases the likelihood of affirmative action lawsuits.
4. damages the self-esteem of biased majority-group members.
15. Candy is washing the dishes and asks her brother to help by drying them. Her brother says that
dishes are women's work, which makes their father smile. Her brother sees the smile and walks
away. This scenario is an example of prejudice as a result of - - - - -.
1. social learning
2. social assimilation
3. incidental feelings
4. social discrimination
8.6.2 Appendix B - Assignment 02 for Semester 1
Assignment 02 for Semester 1
Closing date: 23 April 2021
Unique Number: 773341
1. The basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships is known as the - - - - -.
1. affiliation need
2. the affect-centred model of attraction
3. the proportion of similarity
4. an adaptive response
2. Regardless of the factors leading up to one liking or disliking another individual, those likes
and dislikes are determined by one's immediate - - - - -.
1. proximity
2. effective state
3. need for affiliation
4. interpersonal relationship
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● Remember to use your correct student number and the correct unique number.
● Where an assignment involves the use of a MARK READING SHEET, read the section
“INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF MARK READING SHEETS” in Study@Unisa.
● Students who do not have access to the internet must complete their assignments on a mark
reading sheet provided with your study material.
8.6 The assignments
8.6.1 Appendix A - Assignment 01 for Semester 1
Assignment 01 for Semester 1
Closing date: 19 March 2021
Unique Number: 564929
Remember the following:
● Use only an HB pencil (not a ‘pacer’) and mark your answers clearly as follows: [–]
● If you mark a block incorrectly, make sure that the mark is erased properly.
Do not staple your mark reading sheet to any document.
1. The process during which we interpret, analyse, remember, and use information about the
social world is known as - - - - -.
1. encoding
2. automatic processing
3. social cognition
4. schemas
2. One way to manage information overload is to make use of - - - - -.
1. mental shortcuts such as heuristics
2. the anchoring and adjustment stratagem
3. automatic priming
4. the complexity schema
3. Decisions made on the basis of the representativeness heuristic may be flawed because they
tend to ignore information about - - - - -.
1. base rates
2. schemas
3. rational processing schemes
4. automatic priming
4. The process whereby we seek to know and understand others is called - - - - -, and frequently
makes use of - - - - -.
1. social awareness; not really caring about people
2. social attribution; impression management
3. social perception; nonverbal communication
4. social consistency; correspondence bias
11
,5. We might think that a waiter who flirts with a customer does so because be likes to flirt if we
notice that other waiters avoid flirting with that customer. This best represents the concept of low
- - - - -.
1. nonconunon effect
2. consensus
3. consistency
4. distinctiveness
6. Members of collectivistic cultures are more likely to recognize more of the situational
determinants of behaviour than are members of individualistic cultures. As a result,
members of collectivist societies are - - - - -
1. somewhat less likely to make the fundamental attribution error.
2. a great deal more likely to make the fundamental attribution error.
3. unaware of the fundamental attribution error.
4. somewhat more likely to make the fundamental attribution error.
7. Socially introverted individuals who use Facebook or other online social programs tend to - - - - -
1. not be able to transfer their online personas into the real world.
2. create completely unattainable identities online.
3. become more introverted because their social interaction is only occurring online.
4. benefit from receiving validation of a possible self and may improve social success offline.
8. Introspection is an effective means of understanding ourselves when the - - - - -
1. individual is attempting to understand the reasons for his or her feelings about something
important.
2. focus is on unconscious affective factors.
3. focus is on a conscious decision-making process.
4. individual displays an introverted personality configuration.
9. George was listening as a friend described him to someone else on the telephone. His friend’s
description included “friendly, taller, active” and similar terms. As a result, George is now
probably thinking of himself in terms of - - - - -.
1. collectivist relationships
2. indeterminant relationships
3. intergroup comparisons
4. intragroup comparisons
10. Attitudes are - - - - -
1. the mechanism we use to reduce dissonance.
2. the mechanism we can use to protect ourselves from unwanted views of ourselves.
3. the process by which we adjust or adapt our behaviour to particular circumstances.
4. our evaluations of different aspects of the social world.
11. According to the process of instrumental conditioning behaviour will be displayed often by an
individual if - - - - -.
1. it is reinforced
2. the individual sees a role model perform the action
3. it is ignored
4. it is preceded by a pleasant subliminal stimulus
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12. An anti-smoking advertisement that features photographs of diseased lungs, people using
oxygen tanks to offset the effects of lung disease, and funerals, but does not include information
about quitting smoking, is likely to be ineffective because it will probably - - - - -.
1. induce too much fear
2. induce a desire to smoke more among some people
3. trivialize the consequences of smoking
4. create cognitive dissonance in viewers
13. Prejudice can be - - - - - or - - - - -.
1. cognitive; subtle
2. blatant; subtle
3. affective; evaluative
4. affective; well-reasoned
14. One result of tokenism is that it - - - - -
1. can damage the self-esteem and confidence of tokenised individuals.
2. increases the likelihood of minority group protests.
3. increases the likelihood of affirmative action lawsuits.
4. damages the self-esteem of biased majority-group members.
15. Candy is washing the dishes and asks her brother to help by drying them. Her brother says that
dishes are women's work, which makes their father smile. Her brother sees the smile and walks
away. This scenario is an example of prejudice as a result of - - - - -.
1. social learning
2. social assimilation
3. incidental feelings
4. social discrimination
8.6.2 Appendix B - Assignment 02 for Semester 1
Assignment 02 for Semester 1
Closing date: 23 April 2021
Unique Number: 773341
1. The basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships is known as the - - - - -.
1. affiliation need
2. the affect-centred model of attraction
3. the proportion of similarity
4. an adaptive response
2. Regardless of the factors leading up to one liking or disliking another individual, those likes
and dislikes are determined by one's immediate - - - - -.
1. proximity
2. effective state
3. need for affiliation
4. interpersonal relationship
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