Question 1
Our thoughts about why people behave in the ways they do are known as:
| [removed] | attributions. | |
| [removed] | delusions. | |
| [removed] | illusions. | |
| [removed] | inferential psychology. |
Question 2
Actors explain their own behaviors with ________ causes.
| [removed] | vague | |
| [removed] | unjustifiable | |
| [removed] | external | |
| [removed] | internal |
Question 3
When we use a self-serving bias, we tend to attribute ___________ to our own characteristics and to attribute ___________ to external factors.
| [removed] | our luck; other people’s luck | |
| [removed] | other people’s luck; our luck | |
| [removed] | our successes; our failures | |
| [removed] | our failures; our successes |
Question 4
___________ are evaluations of people, objects, and ideas.
| [removed] | Attitudes | |
| [removed] | Self-serving biases | |
| [removed] | Emotions | |
| [removed] | Deindividuations |
Question 5
The jigsaw classroom has been shown to reduce prejudice among schoolchildren by promoting __________ rather than ____________.
| [removed] | competition; cooperation | |
| [removed] | cooperation; competition | |
| [removed] | academic contact; intimate contact | |
| [removed] | intimate contact; academic contact |
Question 6
___________ is a generalization about a group’s characteristics that does not account for variations from one individual to the next.
| [removed] | A stereotype | |
| [removed] | Deindividuation | |
| [removed] | A self-serving bias | |
| [removed] | Groupthink |
Question 7
Which area of social psychology involves how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information?
| [removed] | cognitive sociology | |
| [removed] | psychosocial interactionism | |
| [removed] | social cognition | |
| [removed] | social kinesthetics |
Question 8
______________ causes people to conform because they want to be right.
| [removed] | Informational social influence | |
| [removed] | Normative social influence | |
| [removed] | Ethnocentric social influence | |
| [removed] | Elaborative social influence |
Question 9
____________ is an unjustified negative attitude toward an individual based on the individual’s membership in a group.
| [removed] | Stereotyping | |
| [removed] | Prejudice | |
| [removed] | Discimination | |
| [removed] | Deindividuation |
Question 10
_____________ is the process of acting in a way that presents a desired image.
| [removed] | Deinidividuation | |
| [removed] | Social identification | |
| [removed] | Impression management | |
| [removed] | Fundamental attribution |
