Exam 12: Social Psychology

Modern racism is most likely to be demonstrated by:

Gottman has found that a marriage that has ________ as many positive as negative interactions is in good shape.

Given what you know about the role of gender in creating ingroup/outgroup biases,you could predict that the largest number of close friendship groups would be found in:

Based on what you learned from this chapter,how might you minimize prejudice and discrimination in your community?

What is the primary reason that doctors are more persuasive than celebrities?

Prejudice can be reduced when ________ members listen and ________ members are heard.

Based on what you know about the attractiveness stereotype,what is a primary difference for the way in which people will view Sally,a relatively unattractive teacher,as compared to Katrina,a relatively attractive teacher?

Leo and Jenny had a major argument.That night,he gives her a lovely necklace to apologize.Jenny thinks that he gave her the necklace not to make her happy but to make himself feel better.Jenny is making a ________ attribution.

The implicit association test is particularly adept at assessing modern racism because it:

Shared goals that require cooperation are called:

Cybelle and Tupac love to spend time together and will call or email several times a day to check in with each other.While they do not fight very often,when they do fight it is serious and intense.According to Gottman,Cybelle and Tupac are likely to have a relationship that is ________ because ________.

When a person eats an unhealthy diet despite knowing the negative consequences but rationalizes the behavior to decrease the anxiety he or she is experiencing,this behavior is an example of:

According to the idea of kin selection,Hannah is most likely to behave altruistically toward her:

Each of the following are reasons that images of average faces (those created by combining various faces)are more attractive than images of any one particular face EXCEPT:

Romantic conflict is predicted by:

Which of the following would be rated most attractive?

When there is a conflict between attitude and behavior,why might dissonance be resolved by changing the attitude rather than the behavior?

Which of the following factors is NOT a cause of deindividuation?

Katie feels as if her sorority is made up of many diverse and unique members.However,she feels like fraternities are composed of males who are all very similar to each other.Her bias is known as:

When people are uncertain of how to behave,they often look to others to help tell them the "right way" to do things.This type of conformity is known as ________ influence.