PYC3701: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT 01: for Semester 2
SEMESTER UNIQUE NUMBER: 887018
(8.6.3 Appendix C - Assignment 01 for Semester 2)
Name: ***
Student Number: ***
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1. Mental frameworks for organising and processing social information are known
as - - - - -.
1. affective states
2. anchoring frameworks
3. schemas
4. heuristics
Answer 3
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 65.
2. Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences are known as -
- - - -.
1. heuristics
2. automaticity
3. anchoring and adjustment
4. schemas
Answer 1
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 58.
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, 3. Norman chronically buys and sells “things” on eBay. He is used to establishing an
anchor in negotiating his way toward some endpoint, a sales price, an agreement
about delivery time, shipping costs, whatever. The anchor for him is almost
always a way of dealing with - - - - -.
1. others’ likely business judgments
2. knowing what the item likely sells for elsewhere
3. uncertainty
4. balancing likely costs with expected profit generation
Answer 2
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 61-62.
4. The process we use to try and understand other people is known as - - - - -.
1. attribution
2. impression management
3. nonverbal communication
4. social perception
Answer 1
Reference South African Supplement to Social Psychology, 3rd Edition, page 9
+ Study Guide, Study Unit 3.2, page 9.
5. Erin’s boyfriend has taken her out to dinner at a very exclusive restaurant. Erin
notices that he can’t seem to sit still during the meal, and is constantly rubbing his
left knee, scratching an itch, or pulling his earlobe. This type of body language
usually indicates - - - - -.
1. emotional arousal
2. correspondent inference
3. nothing, it cannot be interpreted without more information
4. some sort of physical ailment
Answer 2
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 3, page 103 +
South African Supplement to Social Psychology, 3rd Edition, Chapter
3, page 10.
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ASSIGNMENT 01: for Semester 2
SEMESTER UNIQUE NUMBER: 887018
(8.6.3 Appendix C - Assignment 01 for Semester 2)
Name: ***
Student Number: ***
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1. Mental frameworks for organising and processing social information are known
as - - - - -.
1. affective states
2. anchoring frameworks
3. schemas
4. heuristics
Answer 3
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 65.
2. Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences are known as -
- - - -.
1. heuristics
2. automaticity
3. anchoring and adjustment
4. schemas
Answer 1
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 58.
1
, 3. Norman chronically buys and sells “things” on eBay. He is used to establishing an
anchor in negotiating his way toward some endpoint, a sales price, an agreement
about delivery time, shipping costs, whatever. The anchor for him is almost
always a way of dealing with - - - - -.
1. others’ likely business judgments
2. knowing what the item likely sells for elsewhere
3. uncertainty
4. balancing likely costs with expected profit generation
Answer 2
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 2, page 61-62.
4. The process we use to try and understand other people is known as - - - - -.
1. attribution
2. impression management
3. nonverbal communication
4. social perception
Answer 1
Reference South African Supplement to Social Psychology, 3rd Edition, page 9
+ Study Guide, Study Unit 3.2, page 9.
5. Erin’s boyfriend has taken her out to dinner at a very exclusive restaurant. Erin
notices that he can’t seem to sit still during the meal, and is constantly rubbing his
left knee, scratching an itch, or pulling his earlobe. This type of body language
usually indicates - - - - -.
1. emotional arousal
2. correspondent inference
3. nothing, it cannot be interpreted without more information
4. some sort of physical ailment
Answer 2
Reference Social Psychology, 14th Edition, (Textbook) Chapter 3, page 103 +
South African Supplement to Social Psychology, 3rd Edition, Chapter
3, page 10.
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