FL6 P/S

Misinformation effects

Refer to distortions in a person's memory or perceptions due to misleading information encountered after an event.

The first hypothesis has the most in common with which theoretical perspective?

A. Biopsychosocial model

B. Life course approach

C. Social epidemiology

D. Symbolic interactionism

age → B. Life course approach

Which perspective provides the most likely theoretical basis for the second hypothesis?

A. Cognitive dissonance theory

B. Elaboration likelihood model

C. Evolutionary psychology

D. General adaptation syndrome`

gender → C. Evolutionary psychology

In the first paragraph, which construct best describes the source of portrayals of single parents?

A. Agents of socialization

B. Reference groups

C. Social institutions

D. Social network ties

A. Agents of socialization

not reference group because they are not talking about comparing to other but about expected behavior

In a nationally representative sample of adults, researchers find a statistically significant relationship between income and health. However, when the researchers control for education, the relationship between income and health is no longer statistically significant. Which statement does NOT identify a possible explanation for these results?

A. The relationship between income and health is affected by education.

B. The researchers determined that education is an irrelevant variable.

C. The original relationship between income and health was spurious.

D. The researchers accounted for education as a confounding variable.

B. The researchers determined that education is an irrelevant variable.

An individual who always thinks about the past or the future would be best served by which approach to stress reduction?

A. Stress inoculation training

B. Mindfulness meditation

C. Progressive relaxation training

D. Systematic desensitization

B. Mindfulness meditation

Habituation

response to a stimulus decreases after repeated exposure,

Which conclusion is best supported by Figure 1?

A. Infant memory declines as the retention interval increases.

B. Infant retention increases with age.

C. Infants perform better in Session 3 compared to Session 2.

D. Infants perform better in Session 1 compared to Session 2.

A. Infant memory declines as the retention interval increases.

Which theory best explains why C is the only member of his family to be startled by the sound of the branch scraping the window?

A. Incentive

B. Signal detection

C. Activation-synthesis

D. Impression management

B. Signal detection

“after watching a movie about a haunted house that resembles his new home, he becomes convinced that there is a ghost in his bedroom.”

Display rules

socially prescribed norms governing emotional expression.

Measurement of how often a respondent attends religious services is subject to bias for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A. whether respondents remember their level of attendance.

B. whether respondents specify their religious affiliation.

C. whether respondents understand the frequency scale.

D. whether respondents feel religious attendance is socially desirable.

B. whether respondents specify their religious affiliation.

because this does not directly affect the accuracy of their reported attendance frequency.

The frontal lobe is involved in planning, decision-making skills, and judgment, all of which were impacted by the person.

The parietal lobe contains the somatosensory cortex.

The temporal lobe contains the auditory cortex.

Social loafing occurs when individuals put in less work when they are part of a group compared to when they work alone.

Deindividuation is a state of reduced individuality, reduced self-awareness, and reduced attention to personal standards that occurs when individuals are part of a group and separated from their usual identities

Social facilitation occurs when the presence of an audience improves performance.

Rogers’s idea of incongruence

discrepancy between the actual and ideal selves.

sick role

refers to the changes in social role expectations brought on by an illness.

Agents of socialization refer to specific entities, such as schools or media, that help develop and spread social norms.

The distinction between “I am” and “I have” statements in paragraph 2 would be of most interest to a researcher using which sociological paradigm?

A. Symbolic interactionism

B. Functionalism

C. Exchange theory

D. Conflict theory

A. Symbolic interactionism → examines how individuals create meanings through interactions and self-concept.

In a study, participants are shown pairs of color patches that differ minutely in terms of hue and are asked to respond whether a given pair is the same color or two different colors. The researchers are most likely trying to establish which relationship?

A. The role of wavelength on absolute threshold

B. The role of amplitude on the perception of brightness

C. The role of wavelength on just-noticeable difference

D. The role of amplitude on the color naming

C. The role of wavelength on just-noticeable difference

operant conditioning = reward → entrenar a un perro

As defined in the passage, audism is most similar to which pair of concepts?

A. Stereotyping and segregation

B. Prejudice and discrimination

C. Xenophobia and ethnocentrism

D. Sexism and racism

D. Sexism and racism

audism → superiority

A cochlear implant is likely to have the greatest impact on spoken language acquisition during:

A. the conventional stage.

B. the operational stage.

C. the sensitive period.

D. the generativity period.

C. the sensitive period.

One day after a large-scale, well-publicized natural disaster, a research team asks participants to record two variables: (1) how they found out about the disaster and (2) their everyday activities on the day they found out about the disaster. Participants are asked to repeat this procedure three more times: 7, 42, and 224 days later. This study most likely aims to compare the effects of:

A. decay on flashbulb memory versus semantic memory.

B. source amnesia on short-term memory and long-term memory.

C. decay on two types of episodic memories.

D. source amnesia on two types of implicit memories.

C. decay on two types of episodic memories.