Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Your subjective interpretations of your social experiences and your modes of
thinking about the social world are called
a. | social cognitions. | c. | interpersonal ruminations. | b. | personal
reflections. | d. | relational
thoughts. |
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Our initial impressions of other people are biased by our
a. | preexisting expectations. | c. | interpretation of environmental
cues. | b. | overall impressions of the situation. | d. | general speed of
processing. |
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We each hold a set of organized beliefs and knowledge about people, objects,
events and situations called
a. | categorizations. | c. | explications. | b. | schemas. | d. | processing
units. |
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Schemas can be thought of as
a. | errors of attribution. | b. | the effects of the primacy
effect. | c. | perceptions. | d. | small theories of everyday objects and
events. |
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The top-down processing technique of comparing our preexisting organized beliefs
and knowledge to assess a new situation is described as
a. | categorization processing. | c. | explicational
processing. | b. | organizational processing. | d. | schematic processing. |
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At a party you are introduced to Anthony who you know is a semi-professional
boxer. Contrary to your expectations he is articulate, clever and charming. This new information will
probably conflict with your preexisting _____ about boxers.
a. | categorization processes | c. | priming | b. | stereotypes | d. | organization processes |
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Current research suggests that the primacy effect occurs because of
a. | the recency phenomenon. | c. | top-down
thinking. | b. | stereotypes. | d. | impression formation. |
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Self-fulfilling prophecies arise because our stereotypes
a. | lead us to misperceive the actual characteristics of those we
stereotype. | b. | affect our own behavior toward those stereotype. | c. | cause those we
stereotype to dislike us and, hence, to act negatively toward us. | d. | lead us to avoid
contact with those we stereotype--thereby preventing us from overcoming our
stereotypes. |
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The task of attempting to infer the causes of behavior is called
a. | attribution. | c. | schematic processing. | b. | detecting
covariation. | d. | implication
detection. |
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Inferring that something internal to a person is responsible for his or her
behavior is called a(n)
a. | innate tendency. | c. | dispositional attribution. | b. | internal
inference. | d. | self-fulfilling
stereotype. |
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When we overestimate the power of dispositions in determining someone's
behavior, we commit the
a. | overjustification error. | c. | normative influence
error. | b. | fundamental attribution error. | d. | self justification
error. |
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Likes and dislikes, favorable or unfavorable evaluations are called
a. | beliefs. | c. | dispositions. | b. | attitudes. | d. | values. |
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When you mentally respond to a set of persuasive arguments and elaborate on the
arguments, the persuasion is said to follow what route?
a. | central | c. | real | b. | peripheral | d. | local |
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Persuasion that is produced by the thoughts that a person generates while
reading, listening or anticipating communication is called
a. | generated persuasion. | c. | self-persuasion. | b. | monitored persuasion. | d. | self-deception. |
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If you are given a series of arguments about an issue you are not personally
involved in, you would be more likely to use
a. | the "central" route of persuasion. | c. | heuristics. | b. | the boomerang
effect. | d. | low issue
involvement. |
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In choosing a dating partner, people tend to
a. | say that physical attractiveness is most important to them. | b. | act as if physical
attractiveness is the most important factor. | c. | disregard physical
attractiveness. | d. | focus on physical attractiveness if they feel
unattractive. |
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When a man or woman is seen with someone who is physically very attractive, he
or she is rated
a. | as more physically attractive themselves. | b. | as less physically
attractive themselves. | c. | A is true when the person they are seen with is
a romantic partner or friend; b is true when the other person is a stranger. | d. | A is true when the
person they are seen with is a stranger; b is true when other person is a romantic partner or
friend. |
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The best single predictor of whether two people are friends is how
a. | far apart they live. | b. | similar they are in
intelligence. | c. | similar they are in physical attractiveness. | d. | complementary their
personality traits are. |
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One of the major reasons that proximity creates liking is that it
a. | makes people appear more physically attractive to one another. | b. | decreases fear of
the unknown. | c. | increases familiarity. | d. | increases
similarity. |
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Romantic couples probably tend to be about equally matched on physical
attractiveness because
a. | they become more similar to one another over time. | b. | people are most
attracted to people who are like them. | c. | people pursue the most attractive person they
think will be interested in them. If they aim high they will be rejected. | d. | it is a statistical
reality that most people are of average attractiveness and hence will be
matched. |
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