unit 34: social psychology and the individual

1. A BRANCH OF PSYCHOLOGY THAT STUDIES THE WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE´S BEHAVIORS AND MENTAL PROCESSES ARE INFLUENCED BY OTHER PEOPLE:
a) abnormal psychology
b) social psychology
c) clinical psychology
d) community psychology

2. IT RELATES TO THE ATTITUDES), CHARACTERISTICS, OR EXPERIENCES OF A SPECIFIC PERSON:
a) condition
b) defined
c) ethical
d) personal

3. AN AREA OF PSYCHOLOGY FOCUSED ON SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON MENTAL PROCESSES SUCH AS PERCEPTION, THOUGHT AND MEMORY:
a) social comparison
b) social cognition
c) social facilitation
d) social inhibition

4. THE PROCESS IN WHICH SOMEONE FORMS ATTITUDES ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE BASED ON INFERENCES AS WELL AS DIRECT INFORMATION:
a) statistical research
b) retrospective study
c) impression formation
d) psychosurgery

5. A PROCESS DESCRIBED BY THE SOCIAL-COMPARISON THEORY, IN WHICH A PERSON JUDGES HER OWN ABILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY COMPARING THEM TO THOSE OF SOMEONE ELSE:
a) social cognition
b) social comparison
c) social facilitation
d) social inhibition

6. AN ATTITUDE THAT OCCURS DURING IMPRESSION FORMATION, IN WHICH SOMEONE TENDS TO HAVE MORE POSITIVE REGARD FOR INDIVIDUALS THAN GROUPS, EVEN WHEN THE INIDIVDUALS ARE MEMBERS OF THOSE GROUPS:
a) person-positivity bias
b) self-fulfilling prophecy
c) multi-axial system
d) meta-analysis

7. THE STATE OF CONFLICT THAT OCCURS WHEN A PERSON HOLDS TWO BELIEFS THAT ARE INCONSISTENT PSYCHOLOGICALLY, OR WHEN THE PERSON´S BELIEFS DO NOT MATCH HER BEHAVIOR:
a) cognitive development
b) cognitive therapy
c) causal relationship
d) cognitive dissonance

8. AN EXPLANATION OF THE CAUSE BEHIND A PERSON´S BEHAVIOR:
a) benefit
b) attribution
c) compliance
d) diagnose

9. THE TENDENCY TO OVEREMPHASIZE A PERSON´S PERSONALITY AND UNDEREMPHASIZE THE SITUATION WHEN EXPLAINING THE PERSON´S BEHAVIOR:
a) antisocial personality disorder
b) concrete operational stage
c) fundamental attribution error
d) low-context culture

10. A SITUATION IN WHICH SOMEONE ATTRIBUTES THE ACTIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE TO THEIR PERSONAL TRAITS, BUT ATTRIBUTES HER OWN ACTIONS TO EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES:
a) actor-observer effect
b) cross-sectional study
c) cultural-historical theory
d) hand-eye coordination

11. AN ATTRIBUTION BIAS IN WHICH SOMEONE DOES NOT APPLY EFFORT OR PLACES OBSTACLES IN HER OWN PATH IN ORDER TO AVOID FEELING RESPONSIBLE IF SHE FAILS AT SOMETHING:
a) high-context culture
b) meta-analysis
c) self-handicapping
d) multi-axial system

12. A SITUATION IN WHICH SOMEONE BELIEVES SOMETHING TO BE TRUE, AND THEN IT BECOMES TRUE BECAUSE OF THE PERSON´S DIRECT OR INDIRECT INFLUENCE:
a) self-esteem
b) self-fulfilling prophecy
c) self-handicapping
d) self-image

13. AN EVIDENCE-BASED, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE JUDGMENT THAT SOMEONE FORMS OF A PERSON, OBJECT, OR IDEA, AND WHICH AFFECTS THE PERSON´S BEHAVIOR:
a) survey
b) toddler
c) regulation
d) attitude