PSY 100 WEEK 6 QUIZ 5

Question 1

Our thoughts about why people behave in the ways they do are known as:

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attributions.

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delusions.

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illusions.

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inferential psychology.

Question 2

Actors explain their own behaviors with ________ causes.

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vague

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unjustifiable

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external

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internal

Question 3

When we use a self-serving bias, we tend to attribute ___________ to our own characteristics and to attribute ___________ to external factors.

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our luck; other people’s luck

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other people’s luck; our luck

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our successes; our failures

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our failures; our successes

Question 4

___________ are evaluations of people, objects, and ideas.

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Attitudes

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Self-serving biases

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Emotions

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Deindividuations

Question 5

The jigsaw classroom has been shown to reduce prejudice among schoolchildren by promoting __________ rather than ____________.

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competition; cooperation

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cooperation; competition

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academic contact; intimate contact

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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.

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A stereotype

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Deindividuation

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A self-serving bias

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Groupthink

Question 7

Which area of social psychology involves how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information?

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cognitive sociology

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psychosocial interactionism

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social cognition

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social kinesthetics

Question 8

______________ causes people to conform because they want to be right.

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Informational social influence

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Normative social influence

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Ethnocentric social influence

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Elaborative social influence

Question 9

____________ is an unjustified negative attitude toward an individual based on the individual’s membership in a group.

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Stereotyping

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Prejudice

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Discimination

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Deindividuation

Question 10

_____________ is the process of acting in a way that presents a desired image.

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Deinidividuation

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Social identification

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Impression management

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Fundamental attribution

 
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