Psychology - Social And Applied Psychology Pre Quiz 8

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More witnesses to an armed robbery ________ the amount of help the victim receives after the robber leaves the scene

The layer of the skin that contains bundles of collagen and elastic fibers responsible for the strength of the skin is the ________ layer

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Those wrongly imprisoned are typically well compensated for the time they spent in prison

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Which of the following is a determinant of the overall level of cognitive dissonance?

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Helping behavior is adaptive from an evolutionary standpoint if

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What is the major issue for a romantic partner in terms of rejecting the other partner's love?

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According to the textbook, human intuition is typically an excellent guide to understanding human behavior

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According to Myers, advertisers for beverages and clothing tend to adopt marketing strategies that use the ______ route persuasion.

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Harris (1996) suggested that if children were left with their same schools, neighborhoods, and peers, but their parents were switched, the children would develop into the same sort of adults. This conclusion reflects the power of:

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A listening strategy in which the listener focuses attention on what his or her partner is saying without being defensive is known as ____

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Sexual scripts often assume "yes" unless a "no" is directly stated.

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Respecting people's right to privacy is not usually a problem in the following research:

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Jason fights with young children on the school playground to gain the attention and respect of his friends. This most clearly suggests that his aggression is:

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To understand the power of social influence, we must understand how we form __________ of our social environment.

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Research by Schutte and Hosch (1997) found that ____ were more likely to vote for ____ than ___

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After reaching an agreement through Craigslist for the cost of a piano, the seller says he "forgot" to add the cost of the bench and the price will be another $25. Amy agrees to pay the new price. What best explains what just happened?

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A child starts to cry after she sees her best friend trip and scrape her knee. The child's behavior is most likely an example of

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Which of the following is not a health benefit of marriage?

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Same-gender sexual contact in adolescence _________

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According to Freudian theory, paraphilias are the result of

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Consider the following quote: "... we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble...". With which of the following theories is this MOST consistent?

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Many times parents will treat the youngest child differently than the oldest child. Which term best describes this shift?

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The tendency to divide the social world into separate groups, including our in-group and a number of different out-groups is known as ________

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Positive subjective experiences tend to be

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What is not true of values?

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Social psychologists have coined the term ____________________ to refer to loss of self-awareness and loss of individual accountability in a group

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The process by which we make judgments about the demands of potentially stressful events as well as our ability to meet those demands is called

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Which of the following is NOT one of the values and approaches endorsed by community psychology?

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Though she initially attended the pro-choice rally because all her friends were going, Marion now firmly believes in a woman's right to choose when it comes to abortion. Marion's new beliefs illustrate

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Social psychologists often do experiments in the laboratory, instead of the field, in order to

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Overall, the research described in the vignette best exemplifies which of the following research techniques?

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A sociologist is interested in studying the causes of suicide in society. She begins her research by developing a project in which she asks suicide survivors to discuss their reasons for attempting suicide and the personal and social conditions that led to their decisions to attempt the act. In a second project, she examines another researcher's survey data from a national sample of U.S. citizens. She found that depression is associated with the desire to commit suicide but many people who think about committing suicide never make any attempt to do so. She also found that people who have experienced a stressful life event, such as a job loss or divorce, are more likely to report the desire to commit suicide.

A) a survey method
B) an experiment
C) a field method
D) a mixed-method approach

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Depo-Provera (or MPA)

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Findings in research (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2008) on prejudice suggest that for many people, prejudice

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Family support of a chronically ill patient is especially important because they

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Suppose that Frances and her boyfriend Darnell both cheated on one another recently. If Frances is like MOST people, then she probably thinks that her cheating hurt Darnell ____ Darnell's cheating hurt her

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You are reading the newspaper and you see a photograph of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Research by Archer and colleagues (1983) suggests that the picture is likely to be

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Your friend just won a race. You give her the thumbs up sign from the stands. This is an example of

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Overall, we tend to like competent people unless they appear to be too

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In the developing world, the major causes of death are ____________ diseases.

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There are four stages of implementation of a prevention program, including experimental, technological, diffusional, and

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Given that pre-trial publicity adversely affects jurors' impartiality, what can be done to restore the likelihood of a fair trial for the defendant?

Answers may vary.Pre-trial publicity can adversely affects jurors' impartiality. There are four alternatives available to restore the likelihood of a fair trial for the defendant. They are as follows:• Continuance:The trial can be postponed until a later date, with the expectation that the passage of time will lessen the effects of the prejudicial material. This view remains in vogue with some judges. But although continuances may decrease jurors' reliance on factual pre-trial publicity, they do not dampen jurors' recall or use of emotionally biasing information. Furthermore, prejudicial effects of pre-trial publicity can linger for at least eight weeks post-exposure.• Expanded voir dire:The most popular method for handling pre-trial prejudice involves conducting a thorough voir dire of potential jurors in order to identify and dismiss those with particularly strong biases. But expanded voir dire may be of limited usefulness. Jurors may not recognize their own biases, and can hide their true feelings from an examiner if they so choose. They may also be hesitant to self-disclose in a public courtroom. Finally, Freedman, Martin, and Mota (1998) found that the impact of pre-trial publicity actually increased, rather than decreased, when jurors were questioned about their exposure prior to trial.• Judicial instructions:A fairly simple remedy for the biasing effects of pre-trial publicity is an instruction from the judge telling jurors to ignore what they learned about the case prior to trial and admonishing them to base their decision on the evidence. But cautionary instructions may also be insufficient to reduce the biasing effects of exposure to pre-trial publicity.• Change of venue:A change of venue, the most extreme remedy for pre-trial prejudice, is typically requested by defense attorneys in cases that have generated a great deal of biased publicity (e.g., the Boston marathon bombing case). Changing venue means that the trial is held in a different geographic jurisdiction and that jurors for the trial may be drawn from this new jurisdiction. But venue changes are expensive, inconvenient, and time-consuming, so judges are reluctant to grant them, though some evidence suggests that they are more easily persuaded when defense attorneys provide media analyses documenting the extent of news coverage. Venue changes can result in significant variations in characteristics of the communities, and hence, the jurors, involved.

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What was Osborn's term for the group approach to problem solving that emphasizes nonevaluative creative thinking?

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A person uses instrumental __________ to attain some practical goal by hurting others, even when he or she is not angry

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When his coworker got a speeding ticket, Evan assumed that she was a careless driver. When Evan got a speeding ticket, he believed it was because the police were unfair. This is an example of what?

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Which of the following is a component of social influence interventions?

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Which statement is true about cohabitation in the United States?

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Which of the following is most likely to be an aerobic exercise?

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Generally speaking, a transsexual individual with an "XX" sex chromosome pair is likely to feel:

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Human sexuality is an academic field which focuses research on

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A good way to start to know your partner's sexual desires is to disclose your own

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Reggie is busy trying to prepare a complicated recipe for dinner when his sons come in asking him who can use the computer first. One son, Jason, gives a long explanation about why he needs it, and goes on for some time. The other son, Cameron, just gives a short explanation. If Reggie is processing these arguments via the heuristic route, who is he most likely to give computer privileges to first?

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