According to the five-step model of bystander intervention, what is the first thing you must do as a potential helper?
Decide whether you would know how to help under the particular circumstances |
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Decide whether it is your responsibility to help |
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Notice that something unusual is happening |
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Decide if help is actually needed |
According to the text, military aggression for the purpose of defending one's own territory is considered which type of aggression?
Anomic aggression |
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Instrumental aggression |
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Egoistic aggression |
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Altruistic aggression |
Rico and Roxanne have been going out for about 2 months. They both get a knot in their stomach every time they see each other. Whenever they are apart, they long to be together again. What do psychologists call this type of love?
Empty |
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Fatuous |
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Passionate |
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Consummate |
An attitude directed toward members of a specific social group that directly or indirectly suggests they deserve an inferior social status is called ____.
attributing |
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prejudice |
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discrimination |
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social categorization |
Every day when he walks into the front door of his office building, Shemar dutifully holds the door open if there is a lady near him and allows her to walk in first. If there is a man near him, however, he will open the door, walk in, and allow the other man to open the door for himself. This may be seen as what kind of an example of sexism?
Instrumental |
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Hostile |
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Explicit |
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Benevolent |
Why do we often try to flatter people before making a request?
Because a positive mood can influence compliance. |
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Because the brain processes positive emotions faster than it does negative emotions. |
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Because it relieves us of the burden of giving reasons for conformity. |
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Because flattery directs people to central route processing of a request. |
Which model is used to explain how aggression is often triggered by circumstances that arouse negative affect, such as frustration, pain, extreme temperatures, and encountering people whom we dislike?
Ethnocentric |
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Aggression-environmental |
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Diathesis-stress |
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Cognitive neoassociation |
What is the first step in impression formation?
Forming an ambiguous stereotype |
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Examining the looks-for-status criterion |
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Working through the fundamental attribution error |
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Categorizing people into groups Under which of the following circumstances are men more likely than women to help? |
The situation involves an element of danger. |
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They are experiencing a negative mood. |
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They believe that providing assistance will result in a reward. |
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There is an absence of social support.Which of the following was the initial assumption underlying cognitive dissonance theory? |
That everyone has an equal desire to act consistently |
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That others agree with ourselves more often than not |
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That people who appear to have authority should be obeyed |
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That attitudes are good predictors of behavior |
QUESTION 11
What does the discipline of social psychology attempt to do?
Understand how changes and maturation affect development over the course of the lifespan |
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Understand the influences of others on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior |
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Evaluate, diagnose, and treat those with mental disorders and problems of everyday life |
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Apply the rules of society and psychology to the workplace and industrial settings |
Men tend to engage in more ____ aggression than women, but women tend to engage in more ____ aggression than men.
indirect, physical |
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instrumental, direct |
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direct, instrumental |
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physical, indirect |
In Asch's experiment, participants had to perform a _____ task.
memory. |
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social judgments |
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visual perception |
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under time pressure |
QUESTION
Why are people of color much more likely than others to consider their race and ethnicity an important aspect of their self-concepts?
Because the aspect that separates them from others is overt and visible. |
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Because of the different linguistic structures used within their subcultures |
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Because of their history of being the targets of oppression |
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Because of their faith in a collectivist society |
QUESTION
According to the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion, the ____ route to persuasion involves being influenced by the strength and/or quality of a given argument.
central |
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explicit |
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implicit |
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improvisational |
QUESTION 1
When we stereotype individuals, we often make what kind of judgments?
Informed |
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Accurate |
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Incorrect |
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Insignificant |
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