CHAPTER 3 (I)

There are five basic channels of non-verbal communications. These include _____________.

• Facial expressions, eye contact body movements, posture and touching

• Touching, eye contact, body movements, vocal tone, and facial expressions

• Body movements, facial expressions, posture, attributions, and vocal tone

• Body movements, posture, facial expressions, eye contact, and attributions

Mira noticed that Ady, a fellow student in her social psychology class, was gazing at her frequently during a lecture, but would look away after a few moments, then look at her again. Mira can probably conclude that _____________.

• Ady is angry with her

• Ady likes her

• Ady dislikes her strongly

• Ady is overly shy

The extent to which different people react to a situation in the same general way is known as ______.

• Non-common effects

• Consistency

• Consensus

• Distinctiveness

According to Kelley’s theory, behaviours that arise because of an individual’s traits, motives, or intentions are __________ caused, while those behaviours that arise because of aspects of the social or physical environment are ________ caused.

• ambiguously; distinctively

• genetically; environmentally

• externally; internally

• internally; externally

Inconsistencies between different types of nonverbal cues, such as facial expression and posture are indications of possible deception. These inconsistencies are known as ___________.

• Micro-expressions

• Inter-channel discrepancies

• Expressive inconsistencies

• Noncommon effects

According to Harold Kelley’s theory of attributions, the three factors that influence our attribution of someone’s behaviour to internal or external causes are ___________.

• Distinctiveness, consensus, relevance

• Distinctiveness, consensus, consistency

• Relevance, consistency, consensus

• Distinctiveness, consistency, relevance

Attitudes are________________________.

• the mechanism we use to reduce dissonance

• the mechanism we use to protect ourselves from unwanted views of ourselves

• the process where we adjust or adapt our behaviour to a particular situation

• our evaluations of different aspects of the social world

One basic forms of learning that helps to form our attitude occurs when a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to cause reactions that were originally caused by another stimulus. This type of learning is known as_________________________.

• the Premark principle

• observational learning

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

Attitudes serve as ____function since it allows us to express our central values or beliefs.

• knowledge

• self-identity

• self-esteem

• ego-defensive

According to the process of instrumental conditioning, behaviour will be displayed often by an individual if_________________.

• it is reinforced

• the individual sees the role model perform the action

• it is ignored

• it is preceded by the pleasant subliminal stimulus