Exam 11: Social Relations

Most social decisions are made quickly without conscious thinking; however, some social considerations are more _____, and we use mental effort to come up with a solution.

Fiske (1992) suggests that everyday life can be seen as involving four basic social-cognitive processes. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Discuss the types of altruism presented in this chapter. Illustrate with examples.

According to Fiske, _____ attempts to determine through ratios and rates the value of some aspect of the relationship. For example, if I own 75% of a business, then I would expect to receive 75% of the profits.

A firefighter sacrifices his own life to save a family he does not even know. This is an example of _____ altruism.

_____ brain mechanisms are activated only in certain types of situations, whereas _____ processes are activated in a variety of situations.

_____ neurons discharge when the organism makes a goal-related motor act such as grasping; they also discharge when the organism observes another performing the same action.

As male mandrills move up and down the _____, circulating testosterone levels rise and fall accordingly; likewise, humans expand their view of themselves when they are succeeding and shrink their view of themselves when they are failing.

Things that represent a danger are processed faster and receive a high priority of action; this has led to a distinction between _____ and _____ processes in social cognition.

Particular areas of the brain show higher correlations to social group size. Which of the following is not one of them?

Research on primates suggests that requirements associated with _____ processes may have been one important driving force in the evolution of intelligence.

One of the social relations Fiske describes is _____, a type of relationship in which people are positioned within a hierarchy. Typically, those higher up have more privilege and prestige, but they are also expected to take care of and look out for those lower down.

Fiske's (1992) social relations theory suggests that everyday life can be seen as involving four basic social-cognitive processes. Describe each.

"If you could save only one person in a burning building, would it be a baby or an 85-year-old man?" This is an example of a(n) _____.

The willingness to incur costs to punish cheaters is known as _____; this phenomenon is often tested using the public goods game, in which each player is expected to contribute for the good of the group.

_____ were first discovered in monkeys. They were shown to fire both when the monkey performs a particular action and when it observes another monkey, or even a human, perform that action.

Males in the chimpanzee community form a _____ hierarchy in which there is clearly one alpha male, with other males places along the hierarchy.

Like children's ability to efficiently absorb the language around them, as humans we absorb the social _____ of our culture, which tell us how we are expected to behave in a variety of situations.

A variety of observations in the wild suggest that monkeys use _____ to get what they desire.

A new field has developed, referred to as _____, which studies the manner in which humans calculate market pricing relationships.