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Which of the following is not an element of Burke's dramatistic pentad? |
| | A) | Act |
| | B) | Plot |
| | C) | Agent |
| | D) | Scene |
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Which of the following is not a tenet of the rational world paradigm? |
| | A) | People are essentially rational |
| | B) | People make decisions based on good reasons |
| | C) | Rationality is determined by how much we know and how well we can argue |
| | D) | The world is a set of logical puzzles that we can solve |
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Which of the following metaphors guides schema theory? |
| | A) | Human as consistency seeker |
| | B) | Human as storyteller |
| | C) | Human as naïve scientist |
| | D) | Human as cognitive miser |
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Elise isn't worried that her friend Sally hasn't called in a long time: "She's been so busy at work, its no wonder," she says. Elise is making a(n) __________ attribution about Sally's behavior. |
| | A) | Internal |
| | B) | External |
| | C) | Consistent |
| | D) | Schematic |
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S.E. Taylor argues that social and cognitive psychologists have been guided by these three important metaphors: |
| | A) | cognitive miser, consistency seeker, controller |
| | B) | consistency seeker, cognitive miser, naïve scientist |
| | C) | stability follower, naïve scientist, consistency seeker |
| | D) | naïve scientist, cognitive miser, stability follower |
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Two important issues to consider in understanding schema theory are: |
| | A) | what, how |
| | B) | how, why |
| | C) | why, when |
| | D) | when, what |
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A variety of frames can be drawn on to help us understand different situations, including: |
| | A) | memory schemas, person schemas, role schemas, and event schemas. |
| | B) | role schemas, self-schemas, person schemas, and event schemas. |
| | C) | self-schemas, person schemas, internal schemas, and role schemas. |
| | D) | person schemas, role schemas, abstract schemas, and self-schemas. |
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Schemas are not set in stone, and they change with new information and experiences. Wicks outlines the following three models of how new information might change existing schemas: |
| | A) | bookkeeping, subtyping, and episodic models |
| | B) | conceptual, subtyping, and long-term models |
| | C) | subtyping, conversion, and conceptual models |
| | D) | conversion, bookkeeping, and subtyping models |
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Understanding of the ways in which explanations for social life are sought and applied forms the basis of __________ theory. |
| | A) | narrative |
| | B) | attribution |
| | C) | schema |
| | D) | MOP |
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Walter Fisher sees the narrative paradigm as a very general means of understanding the ways in which humans encounter and behave within their __________ world. |
| | A) | social |
| | B) | political |
| | C) | rational |
| | D) | dramatic |
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