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Jill believes she received a C on her Biology test because the test was difficult. Jill is |
| | A) | making a situational attribution. |
| | B) | making a personal attribution. |
| | C) | committing the fundamental attribution error. |
| | D) | exhibiting self-serving bias. |
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One dark winter morning, Pablo's neighbor was backing out of her driveway when she ran over Pablo's morning newspaper. Pablo immediately concludes that the neighbor ran over the newspaper because she dislikes him. Pablo is |
| | A) | making a situational attribution. |
| | B) | committing the fundamental attribution error. |
| | C) | exhibiting self-serving bias. |
| | D) | making an external attribution. |
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One's tendency to make situational attributions for failures and personal attributions for successes is called |
| | A) | mental set. |
| | B) | the fundamental attribution error. |
| | C) | the internal attribution error. |
| | D) | self-serving bias. |
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One's tendency to place the most importance on "first impressions," or initial information that is learned about a person, is called the ________ effect. |
| | A) | primacy |
| | B) | recency |
| | C) | judgment |
| | D) | attribution |
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Based on the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy, if teachers expect their students to misbehave and have low performance, then |
| | A) | their students will likely rebel. |
| | B) | their students will likely do the opposite. |
| | C) | some will misbehave and have low performance and some will behave and have high performance. |
| | D) | their students will likely misbehave and have low performance. |
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Janice is a smoker. Her mother died of lung cancer, her aunt died of breast cancer and she has an uncle who just had part of a lung removed due to smoking. Although Janice feels terrible about smoking and knows the health risks, she continues to do so. In this example, Janice is experiencing |
| | A) | cognitive dissonance. |
| | B) | planned behavior. |
| | C) | normative social influence. |
| | D) | self-perception. |
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When presented with information, if you are most influenced by the message and the argument being presented, then |
| | A) | the peripheral route of persuasion has occurred. |
| | B) | the central route of persuasion has occurred. |
| | C) | social penetration has occurred. |
| | D) | social facilitation has occurred. |
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Marty is a father, a college student, a son, a grandson, a friend and a husband. For each of these social roles, Marty has a different set of ______ that dictate how he is to behave. |
| | A) | social norms |
| | B) | social attitudes |
| | C) | social roles |
| | D) | cultural roles |
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Expectations about how individuals should think, feel, and behave is/are known as |
| | A) | cultural roles. |
| | B) | social roles. |
| | C) | normative social influence. |
| | D) | social norms. |
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In Solomon Asch's study, he found that conformity was influenced by |
| | A) | group size and the presence or absence of a dissenter. |
| | B) | group size and gender. |
| | C) | the age of the group members. |
| | D) | age and gender. |
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Stanley Milgram conducted a study to determine whether ordinary people would |
| | A) | harm someone if they got angry enough. |
| | B) | ask a stranger out on a date because they were told to obey an authority figure. |
| | C) | harm someone because they were told to obey an authority figure. |
| | D) | help a stranger because they were told to obey an authority figure. |
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A charitable organization contacts you by telephone and asks you to donate $500 to their cause. When you refuse, they ask you to donate $50 to their organization. This is an example of |
| | A) | the foot-in-the-door technique. |
| | B) | the door-in-the-face technique. |
| | C) | the central route of persuasion. |
| | D) | lowballing. |
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__________ occurs when an individual reduces his or her output when working in a group. |
| | A) | Social loafing |
| | B) | Social facilitation |
| | C) | Group polarization |
| | D) | Deindividuation |
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According to social identity theory, what purpose does prejudice serve? |
| | A) | It lowers the prejudiced person's self-esteem. |
| | B) | It lowers group identity. |
| | C) | It facilitates cooperativeness. |
| | D) | It increases the prejudiced person's self-esteem. |
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__________ proposes that love consists of three major components: passion, intimacy, and commitment. |
| | A) | Social exchange theory |
| | B) | Sexual strategies theory |
| | C) | Triangular theory of love |
| | D) | Mere exposure effect |
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