As an executive of a company, you are likely to try your best on a project if you believe it could lead to a promotion. This shows how your ____ influences your behavior.
1. emotional attitude
2. global attitude
3. temporary interest
4. vested interest
1. submissive.
2. introverted.
3. fond of children
4. agoraphobic.
When you get up in the morning and think about your job that you dislike, you would really prefer to stay in bed so you call in sick. This shows how ____ can affect behavior.
1. schemes
2. concepts
3. polarization
4. Attitudes
Keisha takes care to look especially good for her job interview. This demonstrates that Keisha recognizes that ____ are important in impression formation.
1. recency effects
2. attributions
3. body language
4. first impressions
Which person is most likely to resist the social pressure encountered from salespersons?
1. Alphos, who has high self-esteem
2. Betos, who has low social anxiety
3. Thetos, who worries what others think of him
4. a & b only
A relationship that has all three components of the triangular model of love would be called
1. fatuous love.
2. everlasting love
3. consummate love.
4. romantic love.
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1. not available
2. not available
3. not available
4. not available
In the ____ scheme, the group comes to recognize that one approach is objectively correct.
1. majority-wins
2. two-thirds majority
3. first-shift
4. none of the above
Greg is fairly unattractive, and he is dating an unattractive woman. Psychologists would point to ____ to explain this.
1. a latency phase fixation
2. a gender stereotype
3. the matching hypothesis
4. pure luck
An attitude toward a group that leads people to evaluate members of that group negatively is known as
1. a stereotype.
2. discrimination.
3. consensus
4. prejudice.
While a gaze can be interpreted as a sign of liking or interest, hard stares are interpreted as signs of
1. friendliness.
2. a willingness to be open
3. passion.
4. provocation or anger.
The manner in which learning helps to shape attitudes is through
1. reinforcement.
2. observation.
3. extinction.
4. both a & b
The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional factors and our own behavior to situational influences is known as
1. a stereotype.
2. the fundamental attribution error.
3. the actor-observer effect.
4. the foot in the door technique.
The first time you met your fiancée you fell down and spilt a glass of red wine on her dress. You obviously didn't make a very good first impression. However, it was several months later before you saw her again. Your second meeting went much better and it was almost as if your first encounter never happened. This is probably due to the
1. repression.
2. recency effect.
3. discrimination
4. primary effect.
One reason why Milgram's subjects obeyed so readily was that they were "on their own" as far as being able to compare their behavior with that of other people in the same situation. This is called
1. lack of social comparison.
2. lack of legitimate authority.
3. inadequate social reinforcement.
4. all of the above
