Social Psychology
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Comprehensive Explanations
& Rationales
Key Concepts • Review
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, Behaviorists would suggest our social cognition depends Operant learning and associational learning
on two kinds of learning:
Employing classical conditioning, a famous hamburger Will experience pleasant emotions when seeing their logo in the future
chain uses bikini models in its advertisements, hoping that
the viewer:
The Bobo Doll took a beating for science. Which principles Observational learning
were tested with this experiment?
An experimenter gets the best available horoscopes for Conformational bias
the day and systematically gives them to people to whom
they do not apply, telling the recipients they are accurate.
When the recipients believe the information in the
horoscopes describes them well, this might be an example
of:
Automatic processing occurs: Largely unconsciously and quickly
Plane crashes are international news; car crashes are The availability heuristic
rarely mentioned. When you are more afraid of flying than
driving, this is an example of:
When white-nationalist group Citizens for Constitutional False consensus effect
Freedom occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in
2016, they expected support from the public in terms of
both praise and material support. They were surprised to
receive neither; most people disagreed with their politics,
philosophy, and actions. This is an example of:
Because of counterfactual thinking: The silver medalist is more disappointed than the bronze medalist
90% of psychotherapists rate themselves in the top 10% of Overconfidence
psychotherapists. This is almost certainly an example of:
Eyewitnesses in court tend to be very confident of their Unjustified
testimony. This confidence is:
According to the textbook, evolutionary adaptation has Self concern and other concern
provided humans with two fundamental motives. These
two motives are _______.
In order of likelihood, rate the odds of a human saving A close relative, a distant relative, a stranger
another human according to kin selection theory:
An awkward person who has trouble understanding and Social Cognition
predicting the behavior of other people has difficulty with:
One's feelings of liking or disliking towards a group of Attitude
people is their:
Practice Questions &
Answers
Comprehensive Explanations
& Rationales
Key Concepts • Review
Questions • Exam Preparation
, Behaviorists would suggest our social cognition depends Operant learning and associational learning
on two kinds of learning:
Employing classical conditioning, a famous hamburger Will experience pleasant emotions when seeing their logo in the future
chain uses bikini models in its advertisements, hoping that
the viewer:
The Bobo Doll took a beating for science. Which principles Observational learning
were tested with this experiment?
An experimenter gets the best available horoscopes for Conformational bias
the day and systematically gives them to people to whom
they do not apply, telling the recipients they are accurate.
When the recipients believe the information in the
horoscopes describes them well, this might be an example
of:
Automatic processing occurs: Largely unconsciously and quickly
Plane crashes are international news; car crashes are The availability heuristic
rarely mentioned. When you are more afraid of flying than
driving, this is an example of:
When white-nationalist group Citizens for Constitutional False consensus effect
Freedom occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in
2016, they expected support from the public in terms of
both praise and material support. They were surprised to
receive neither; most people disagreed with their politics,
philosophy, and actions. This is an example of:
Because of counterfactual thinking: The silver medalist is more disappointed than the bronze medalist
90% of psychotherapists rate themselves in the top 10% of Overconfidence
psychotherapists. This is almost certainly an example of:
Eyewitnesses in court tend to be very confident of their Unjustified
testimony. This confidence is:
According to the textbook, evolutionary adaptation has Self concern and other concern
provided humans with two fundamental motives. These
two motives are _______.
In order of likelihood, rate the odds of a human saving A close relative, a distant relative, a stranger
another human according to kin selection theory:
An awkward person who has trouble understanding and Social Cognition
predicting the behavior of other people has difficulty with:
One's feelings of liking or disliking towards a group of Attitude
people is their:
