Exam 12: Social Psychology

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 ____________.

Even though Jacqueline attended a very expensive boarding school, she passionately believes that money and social class are irrelevant to how interesting or valuable a person is. At the first party in her university dorm Jacqueline, without even realizing it, only spends time with the women who are very well dressed. Jacqueline's belief in social equality is a(n) ____________ and her choice of people with whom to talk reflects a(n) ____________.

Lucia is recently divorced. She goes to lunch with her two closest friends and tells them that while she is sad, she is also optimistic that she will find another, better, relationship. Lucia most likely had a(n) ____________ attachment to her parents as a child.

Ted has been assigned to work on a linguistics project with a mature student in her 40s. Ted is worried that she won't be as sharp and motivated as a younger student. He recognizes that this is a prejudice and works to suppress it. It can be expected that Ted's work on the project would be:

Cat wants to buy a new laptop. She knows that her husband will think that it isn't a necessary expense. She initially proposes buying a $2,500 laptop. When her husband gets upset, she suggests that she could get by with a used laptop for $700. Cat is using the ____________ approach and it is likely that her husband ____________ agree.

Research on friendship formation suggests that you would be best able to predict which students will become friends in their dorm by how:

Who is most likely to be involved in a happy and satisfying relationship?

Babies begin to prefer to look at a picture of a face rather than a blank outline of a head when they are:

Trey is recording grades in the large introductory psychology class for which he is a teaching assistant. Where would social facilitation theory suggest he ought to work on it to make the best progress?

Human beings have evolved as social animals that live in groups, in part because:

If people are randomly assigned to groups A and B, you could predict that the members of each group will:

Xia is participating in a psychology experiment in which she has been exposed to math stereotype threat while her brain activity is monitored. You could predict that the scan would show:

Catalina has gotten an entirely new haircut that she can't wait to show her boyfriend. A social psychologist might advise her that her boyfriend may:

The main conclusion of Milgram's studies is:

Which of the following is NOT a reason that stereotypes tend to be maintained?

Renee and Yves have been together for just over a year. They find that they are having sex much less frequently and that they feel much less passionately about each other. If their relationship is going to last, Renee and Yves need to:

People who are biracial tend to be ____________ attractive because their faces ____________.

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 engaged in ____________, by making a ____________ attribution.

Reciprocal helping sees the adaptive function of altruism as increasing the person's:

When Milgram increased the physical distance between the teacher and the learner in his obedience studies, the level of compliance: