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C.M. Steele's research indicates that when highly intelligent minority students believe a test is measuring their intellectual abilities:
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Soloman Asch proposed that first impressions create _____ within which everything else about a person is interpreted.
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I see this strikingly attractive girl. However, after having spoken to her, I conclude that she is antisocial, snobby, and ignorant. She is not what I expected based on:
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When remembering social information, what kind of information do people remember the most?
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Schemas have been widely used by psychologists. Based on what was stated in the text, all of the following are true except which one?
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_____ are characteristics attributed to people based on their membership in a specific group, and are often over-generalized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information.
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Theodore Adorno proposed the notion of _____, which relates to individuals who are characterized by a tendency to hate people who are different or downtrodden.
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Participants who were required to look into a mirror while responding to a questionnaire about the acceptability of stereotypes were found to:
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In an experiment, third-grade teacher Jane Elliot:
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Stereotyping is enhanced by the fact that most perceive outgroup members as _____ and ingroup members as _____.
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When trying to understand the behavior of others, people sometimes make _____ attributions, based on the situation, whereas other times they make _____ attributions, based on the person.
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All of the following are types of information people rely on when making attributions about others except:
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The two processes involved in adjusting the strength of situational demands are referred to as:
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Research suggests that people in _____ cultures make more external attributions for others' behaviors than do people from _____ cultures.
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Research suggests that people in collectivistic cultures make more external attributions for others' behaviors than do people from individualistic cultures because:
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A pervasive bias in social cognition is the self-serving bias, the tendency of people to see:
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A student is writing a paper and cites only those articles that support the point he is trying to make. The student is exemplifying:
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Which one of the following is not a reason for the existence of bias or error in social cognition?
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My advisor from graduate school, a man I truly idolize, is considered to be a great psychologist by the psychological community in general. His name and accomplishments are well known. Truth be told, nothing would make me think he is anything but truly outstanding. My belief is high in attitude _____.
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I am very confused about what I think about my dad. I think he is amazing since he was an orphan and became a doctor and a self-made millionaire. I also think he doesn't know what it means to be dad. With regard to my father, I am expressing what is known as attitudinal:
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Which is NOT a reason for why attitudes and behaviors are not perfectly correlated?
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I have an old friend who amazes me. She has the uncanny ability to convince me, through reasoning alone, that she is right and that I am wrong. The funny thing is that I know I am correct, but her reasoning is amazing. Aristotle referred to this ability as:
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Research indicates that a speaker is considered to be more persuasive if the speaker is, or appears to be, _____.
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Psychologists have identified several components of persuasion, among them:
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One method for countering the appeal of an opposing argument is called attitude _____. It involves building up the receiver's resistance to an appeal by presenting weak arguments for it or forewarning against it.
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If you want to change someone's attitude about something, repetition works. It works because:
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Although attitude change often involves deliberate efforts at persuasion, another path to attitude change is ____, a perceived discrepancy between an attitude and a behavior or between an attitude and a new piece of information.
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In order to maintain high self-esteem, it is normal for people to participate in social comparison; compare oneself against others. It is usually the case that we compare ourselves against:
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The night before an exam, a student decides to go to a party and get trashed. The student was ill-prepared anyway for the exam. When the grade of “F” comes back, he says it was due to partying and that he could have passed if he just stayed home. The student is displaying:
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Difference between people in the extent to which they try to manage impressions is reflected in the term:
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