Social Psych Exam 2

Through what mechanism does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measure implicit attitudes?

Reaction times are faster for implicitly associated pairs than non-associated pairs

What do Heuristics do?

avoid overworking cognitive resources

Attitudes that are ____ are held without conscious awareness and are brought to mind automatically

implicit

which of the following statements about the concepts of attitude is NOT accurate?

Attitudes always predict subsequential behavior

Omar is arguing with a friend about a social issue. He picks apart every piece of evidence his friend presents to him but doesn't subject the evidence he has for his own position to the same level of criticism. Omar is experiencing....

confirmation bias

Which of the following is one of the main criticisms of James and Lange's explanation of emotion as being strictly a product of physiological sensation?

people who are paralyzed from the neck down (and can't feel their bodies) still have emotions

In schwarz and Clore's "weather study" ...

Participants surveyed on rainy days reported lower life satisfaction than participants surveyed on sunny days.

Many members of a street gang believe privately that their initiation process is too harsh and dangerous. However, they do not express these beliefs because they assume that everyone else thinks the initiation process is just fine. This scenario exemplifies:

Pluaristic ignorance

What kind of persuasion occurs when people do not think carefully about a communication, and are instead influenced by irrelevant cues?

peripheral route persuasion

The idea that our mood states serve as fast, easily processed clues to the state of our environment is called ______ theory.

Affect as information

According to the theory of effect as information, people in positive moods...

are more likely to rely on stereotypes and heuristics

A political candidate must decide whether a television ad should consist of an endorsement by a celebrity or by a popular governor. Which of the following variables is this researcher concerned about?

source variable

Which is the primary difference between high arousal and low arousal emotional experiences?

high arousal emotions cue effortless cognition; low arousal emotions cue effortful cognition.

The _____ component of an attitude consists of the information a person has about the attitude object

cognitive

Ekman and colleagues' research on the universality of facial expressions showed that people from diverse cultures tend to agree in how they label the emotions of

Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.

The tendency to interpret ambiguous information in ways that are consistent with our mood state is

mood congruent perception

When judgements or decisions are influenced by the way in which information is presented, this is called a

framing effect

Malik went to the Museum of Modern Art during his vacation to NYC. after, he remembers that he liked so many pieces, but he can really only recall the details of the Andy Warhol painting he saw at the very end, as he was walking out the door. malik is displaying

The recency effect

Two candidates for university senate are preparing their fall campaigns. One focuses on campus safety because they think the main focus is student body. The second focuses on the ethics of students of university police because they are sure of it. Which is an explanation for the two candidates believing their platforms each focus on the major concerns of the student body?

False consensus

The source variable credibility is a combination of

expertise and trustworthiness

According to the concept of effort justification

experiencing hazing should increase one’s allegiance to a fraternity

According to the elaboration likelihood model, recipients of a persuasive message who have taken the central route to persuasion will

Analyze and attempt to understand the contents of that message

Which is NOT one of the universal moral domains described in Haidt’s moral foundation theory?

cleanliness/filth

effortful cognition involves

Judgment or decisions of which we are consciously aware

The process by which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world is called

social cognition