Exam 18: Social Cognition and Attitudes

What are the two key dimensions along which the dynamic content of stereotypes can be classified, according to the stereotype content model?

According to the system ____________ theory, people like to believe that the systems underlying the world in which they live are fair and legitimate. Therefore, stereotypes act as a way of rationalizing any inequality that exists in the world.

People are more likely to focus on internal causes of behaviour when making attributions about others' behaviour, and to external causes when making attributions about their own behaviour. This asymmetry in attribution is known as:

Forewarning an audience that you will be trying to persuade them of something will immediately __________.

Automatic processes are beneficial in that they are efficient and do not overly tax our limited cognitive resources.

In one of Benjamin Franklin's famous quotes, what is so hard that it is compared to diamond and steel?

How do people come to an understanding of themselves according to the social comparison theory?

Stereotypes are more likely to be used when there is a lack of information needed to make a more informed social judgement.

One of the key cognitive factors involved in the formation and maintenance of stereotypes is known as the ____________ correlation.

LaPiere view that attitudes and behaviour are not related is in contrast with the prevailing view that there is a moderate-sized relationship between appropriately measured attitudes and behaviours.

According to social ________ theorists, people have a preference for a positive __________ instead of a negative one.

Chen and Bargh (1997) found that participants who were subject to subliminal priming with the category of African Americans (which activated the stereotype of hostile behaviour) showed more hostile behaviour in a later interaction with a non-primed partner. Crucially, the non-primed partners of these participants showed hostile behaviour in return. What phenomenon does this study demonstrate?

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Which of the following is a problem of LaPiere's (1934) study?

What are the two most likely causes of the actor-observer effect?

Social identity theorists believe that people have a preference for:

What is the most common non-self-report measure of attitude?

Social identity approaches argue that we possess __________ identities and also __________ identities.

Research suggests that human beings are not so much interested in knowing about the truth about the self, but they are more interested in knowing positive stuff about the self.

___________ attributes are new attributes which are not associated with the constituent stereotypes.