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The way in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world is called ______________. |
| | A) | social classification |
| | B) | social organization |
| | C) | social belonging |
| | D) | social cognition |
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People tend to rely on readily apparent common features when classifying. This type of classification can become automatic. An apple or robin are examples of a _____________. |
| | A) | social group |
| | B) | classification theory |
| | C) | prototype |
| | D) | social organization |
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An example of a stereotype is _____________. |
| | A) | females are nurses, males are doctors |
| | B) | baby girls are dressed in pink |
| | C) | all males like sports |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Illusory correlation is ____________. |
| | A) | a false belief that two variables are associated |
| | B) | a type of prototype classification |
| | C) | overgeneralization of one variable to populations |
| | D) | none of the above |
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An example of a heuristic is _____________. |
| | A) | expecting to find cheese in the refrigerated aisle at the supermarket |
| | B) | going down every aisle at the supermarket looking for cheese |
| | C) | a 'rule of categories' |
| | D) | all of the above |
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To overestimate your ability in having foreseen the outcome of an event is called _____________. |
| | A) | over confidence |
| | B) | heuristic confidence |
| | C) | algorithm |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Judgments or decisions that we automatically and unconsciously make are part of ____________. |
| | A) | explicit cognition |
| | B) | implicit cognition |
| | C) | explicit recognition |
| | D) | implicit recognition |
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When we overestimate that our own beliefs, attitudes, and opinions are common to the population, we are committing ______________. |
| | A) | confirmatory bias |
| | B) | bias by illusion |
| | C) | false consensus |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Learned helplessness is _____________. |
| | A) | learning to ask for help all the time |
| | B) | repeatedly experiencing a lack of control in bad life circumstances and feeling rejected |
| | C) | self-actualizing your experiences and feeling good about life |
| | D) | learning to help others in time of need |
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According to studies, which gender is judged more by gender stereotypes? |
| | A) | male |
| | B) | female |
| | C) | no distinction has been found |
| | D) | the findings are contradictory |
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The tendency to evaluate events by imaging alternative versions or outcomes to what actually happened is termed ______________. |
| | A) | hindsight bias |
| | B) | counterfeit thinking |
| | C) | counterfactual thinking |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Self-fulfilling prophecy means _____________. |
| | A) | expectations about oneself or others leads to the fulfillment of those expectations |
| | B) | the ideas about oneself are always positive |
| | C) | 'bad things happen to bad people' |
| | D) | 'do unto others as you would have others do unto you' |
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A belief system in which the world is perceived to be a fair and equitable place, with people getting what they deserve is ____________. |
| | A) | just-deserving belief |
| | B) | just-world belief |
| | C) | an 'eye for an eye' theory |
| | D) | none of the above |
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A habitual tendency to attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global causes, and positive events to external, unstable, and specific causes is ____________. |
| | A) | false consensus |
| | B) | just-world belief |
| | C) | optimistic explanatory style |
| | D) | pessimistic explanatory style |
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_______________ has to do with the degree to which a person stands out relative to others in a given situation. |
| | A) | Self-concept |
| | B) | Conceit |
| | C) | Salience |
| | D) | all of the above |
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