Exam 31: Social Behavior Part 1

A recent anti-smoking campaign on television showed graphic images of the internal effects of smoking. Twelve-year-old Dee has seen a number of these ads, and they made her feel nauseated. Now she finds that she has developed an unfavorable attitude toward smoking. In this case, Dee's attitude appears to have developed as a result of

LaPiere's study from the 1930s concerning whether restaurants would serve a Chinese couple demonstrated that

Attribution refers to

Cognitive dissonance

Mort is trying to convince his parents that he should enroll at a university in another state, rather than the local university. He has made five strong points that support his position, but his parents are not yet convinced. Based on the research into factors which influence persuasion, at this point Mort should

Alphonse failed his geology midterm. According to Weiner's attributional model, if Alphonse makes an external-unstable attribution for his failure, he is MOST likely to say

Although physical attractiveness strongly influences interpersonal attraction, many individuals of average and below average attractiveness are involved in long-term relationships. This apparent paradox is BEST explained by the

Lewis has agreed to proofread a long legal brief that Trudy has written, even though he doesn't really like Trudy. Lewis knows that he will not receive any additional pay for his extra work, and he thinks that proofreading is one of the most boring jobs there is. However, after the legal brief is finished, Lewis decides that proofreading isn't such a bad job after all; he feels that at times he actually enjoyed the exacting work. The change in attitude that Lewis has experienced can BEST be explained using

According to Hazan and Shaver, an adult who reports that his or her love relations are volatile, jealous, and full of expected rejection was probably a child with

Preoccupation with rejection is to ____ attachment as relationships lacking intimacy and trust is to ____ attachment.

Blaming your friend's auto accident on the weather conditions is an example of

When an observer is biased in favor of making internal attributions in explaining others' behavior, the observer is making

Rodney has an unfavorable attitude toward his astronomy professor. In explaining Rodney's attitude, a psychologist who took an operant conditioning perspective would consider

Whenever Scott sees Diana he can feel his heart start to pound with excitement. Even though Scott and Diana have only dated a few times, Scott often becomes jealous when Diana talks to other men. He also finds he can't get her out of his mind when they are apart. According to Hatfield and Berscheid, Scott is experiencing

An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise is referred to as

A complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion is called

Research on factors contributing to building relationships seems to support the adage

Recent research has shown that the tendency to commit the fundamental attribution error is reduced if the observer,

Bonnie is uncomfortable being close to others. She finds it difficult to trust people, and she feels as if she has never really experienced true intimacy in any of her adult relationships. According to the theory developed by Hazan and Shaver, during infancy, Bonnie's parents were MOST likely

Which of the following statements concerning cultural variations regarding marriage relationships is false?