Exam 13: Social Psychology

Implicit prejudice refers to negative attitudes toward a group that are consciously endorsed.

Which of the following describes the situation when a person's performance is impaired performance when it is carried out in the presence of others?

Social loafing involves:

Stereotypes can lead people to:

Describe how group polarization and groupthink can affect decision making by groups.Discuss how these two effects can be overcome.

Hank has an unfavorable attitude toward his landlord because the landlord has raised the rent three times in the past year and the landlord won't allow Hank to rent an extra parking space for his motorcycle.This knowledge base forms part of:

When people first meet individuals who are physically attractive, they usually assume that compared to someone with average looks, the attractive individual is:

Mike and Carol share an incredibly strong need to be with each other and strong emotional arousal when together.Their relationship is an example of:

The idea that people use observations of their own behavior as a basis for inferring their internal beliefs is called ____________________ theory.

Lana has a negative attitude toward most lawyers because she has often heard her parents speak poorly of lawyers in general.Lana's attitude appears to have developed through the process of:

A recent antismoking campaign showed graphic images of the internal effects of smoking.Daisy has seen a number of these advertisements, and they made her feel nauseated.Now she finds she has developed an unfavorable attitude toward smoking.In this case, Daisy's attitude appears to have developed as a result of:

Which of the following is NOT one of the components of Sternberg's triangular theory of love?

Which of the following is one of the components of an attitude?

Features and characteristics of a person who is presenting a persuasive message are called:

Which of the following is NOT one of the components of Sternberg's triangular theory of love?

Which of the following is one of the types of information used in making an attribution in the covariation model?

When people show the actor-observer effect, they:

The term ____________________ refers to when groups and their members are evaluated in a consistently negative way.

Evaluating someone in a positive way, simply because of her or his membership in a particular group, would constitute:

Some of the people in Jacqueline's aerobics class are in a better mood after their half-hour workout, but others are short tempered and irritable after class.In this example, there is: