Social Psychology Exam 1 Review

As club president, George believes lack of attendance at meetings is due to the disorganization of the vice president. Others in the club, however, believe the club is not functioning effectively because the meetings are held at an inconvenient time. George cannot understand why others do not see what he sees, and believes that anyone who does not agree that this vice president is at fault iis ignorant. What concept is George demonstrating?

• Terror Management Theory

• Naïve Realism

• Social Comparison Theory

• Counterfactual Thinking

What does social psychology primarily focus on?

• Situational Influences

• Individual Differences

• Large Social Systems

• Personality Traits

Answer explanation

Remember that situational influences can be real or imagined!

True or false, two primary motives of self-construal involve the need to feel good about ourselves and the need to be accurate

• True

• False

What does Aronson argue is the root cause of school shootings?

• Lack of security in the school

• Social exclusion of the perpetrators

• Mental Illness

• All of the above

According to residential mobility, greater mobility...

• Increases the number of deep meaningful connections

• Increases the likelihood of interdependence

• Causes fewer deep meaningful connections

• Decreases rates of anxiety and depression

The use of laugh therapy (walking into a group of strangers and forcing laughter) is an example of what concept?

• Hot-cold empathy gap

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• System Justification

• Facial Feedback Hypothesis

If two individuals watch a scary movie on a first date, they may interpret their excitement as feelings for their partner. What is this an example of?

• Terror Management Theory

• Misattribution of arousal

• Hot-cold empathy gap

• Sociometer Theory

According to Smart and Wegner (2000) and Frable et al., (1998) individuals with concealed stigmas…

• Have higher self-esteem

• Exhibit greater cognitive accessibility of stigma-related thoughts

• Spend more time with similar others

• All of the above are true

In order to engaged in controlled thinking, an individual must:

• Be pressed for time

• Be focused on protecting their self-esteem

• All of the above are true

• Possess the motivation to do so

Answer explanation

Remember that controlled thinking requires both the motivation and ability to do so

 _______ is the tendency to overestimate internal explanations for the behavior of others and underestimate external explanations

• Fundamental attribution error

• Correspondent inference theory

• Perceptual Salience

• Schemas