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1

Which of the following is not an element of Burke's dramatistic pentad?
A)Act
B)Plot
C)Agent
D)Scene
2

Which of the following is not a tenet of the rational world paradigm?
A)People are essentially rational
B)People make decisions based on good reasons
C)Rationality is determined by how much we know and how well we can argue
D)The world is a set of logical puzzles that we can solve
3

Which of the following metaphors guides schema theory?
A)Human as consistency seeker
B)Human as storyteller
C)Human as naïve scientist
D)Human as cognitive miser
4

Elise isn't worried that her friend Sally hasn't called in a long time: "She's been so busy at work, its no wonder," she says. Elise is making a(n) __________ attribution about Sally's behavior.
A)Internal
B)External
C)Consistent
D)Schematic
5

S.E. Taylor argues that social and cognitive psychologists have been guided by these three important metaphors:
A)cognitive miser, consistency seeker, controller
B)consistency seeker, cognitive miser, naïve scientist
C)stability follower, naïve scientist, consistency seeker
D)naïve scientist, cognitive miser, stability follower
6

Two important issues to consider in understanding schema theory are:
A)what, how
B)how, why
C)why, when
D)when, what
7

A variety of frames can be drawn on to help us understand different situations, including:
A)memory schemas, person schemas, role schemas, and event schemas.
B)role schemas, self-schemas, person schemas, and event schemas.
C)self-schemas, person schemas, internal schemas, and role schemas.
D)person schemas, role schemas, abstract schemas, and self-schemas.
8

Schemas are not set in stone, and they change with new information and experiences. Wicks outlines the following three models of how new information might change existing schemas:
A)bookkeeping, subtyping, and episodic models
B)conceptual, subtyping, and long-term models
C)subtyping, conversion, and conceptual models
D)conversion, bookkeeping, and subtyping models
9

Understanding of the ways in which explanations for social life are sought and applied forms the basis of __________ theory.
A)narrative
B)attribution
C)schema
D)MOP
10

Walter Fisher sees the narrative paradigm as a very general means of understanding the ways in which humans encounter and behave within their __________ world.
A)social
B)political
C)rational
D)dramatic







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