Exam 1: An Invitation to Social Psychology

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and "out of sight, out of mind" are both common sayings. A(n) ________ is most likely to conduct an experiment to identify the conditions or situations under which each of these assertions is accurate.

Research on ________ suggests it is ________ for people to assume that dispositions are the underlying causes of most behaviors.

A key difference between automatic processes and controlled processes is that automatic processes

The term construal refers to

Describe automatic and controlled processing and give one example of each.

Which of the following Supreme Court rulings was heavily influenced by social psychological research?

Your waiter seems to be doing everything wrong. He has forgotten to take your drink order. He delivers someone else's food to your table. He does not come out and say it, but his facial expressions seem to say he'd rather be someplace else. If you assume his behavior is caused primarily by ________, your assumption is consistent with the fundamental attribution error.

Kurt Lewin, the founder of modern social psychology, argued that the effects of psychological forces can be understood in the same way that ________ forces are understood.

In the United States, a large luxury sedan is marketed by the slogan "Feel good about yourself. Drive a Lexmark." According to broad generalizations surrounding the individualist-collectivist distinction, why might this slogan be LESS successful in Japan?

Describe the emerging field of social neuroscience. What tools are used by social neuroscientists? Describe one interesting finding coming from this field.

What are schemas? Describe one advantage of using schemas as well as one disadvantage.

Societies may differ from each other in many ways, but it is important to recognize that

Which of the following is LEAST characteristic of the goals of social psychology?

Which of the following statements is true of schemas?

In an independent culture, a person's sense of self tends to be based largely on

Research conducted by Bargh, Chen, and Burrows (1996) illustrates how seemingly trivial aspects of a situation can influence behavior in ways of which people are not aware. These researchers showed that

What is a construal? Describe two different ways in which a person might construe the same situation.

Social psychologists differ from personality psychologists because social psychologists tend to

What is a channel factor? How is this concept relevant to health-care usage?

Summarize the differences between independent and interdependent cultures.