S.P lecture 3 p.1 (Social perception)

1. What is social perception?

• a. A conscious process that involves making accurate judgments about others and events.
• b. A complex, primarily unconscious process that involves making accurate judgments about others and events.
• c. A simple, primarily conscious process that involves making accurate judgments about others and events.
• d. A complex, primarily unconscious process that involves making inaccurate judgments about others and events.

2. What is the role of emotions in social perception?

• a. Emotions have no impact on social perception.
• b. Emotions make social perception less effective.
• c. Emotions enhance the effectiveness of social perception.
• d. Emotions make social perception biased.

3. What is priming in social perception?

• a. Priming is the process of activating associations between concepts, emotions, and judgments.
• b. Priming is the process of deactivating associations between concepts, emotions, and judgments.
• c. Priming is the process of ignoring associations between concepts, emotions, and judgments.
• d. Priming is the process of bypassing associations between concepts, emotions, and judgments.

4. Which of the following is an example of priming?

• a. Watching a scary movie affecting your mood.
• b. Eating a healthy meal affecting your physical well-being.
• c. Exercising regularly affecting your fitness level.
• d. Reading a book affecting your vocabulary skills.

5. What does the Kuleshov effect suggest about social perception?

• a. It suggests that the context in which a face is presented can change or prime emotions.
• b. It suggests that people always perceive faces the same way regardless of context.
• c. It suggests that emotions play no role in social perception.
• d. It suggests that social perception is entirely conscious and deliberate.

6. What is belief perseverance in social perception?

• a. It is the tendency for beliefs to change based on new evidence.
• b. It is the tendency for beliefs to persist even when faced with contradictory evidence.
• c. It is the tendency to believe in superstitions and supernatural phenomena.
• d. It is the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories.

7. How can belief perseverance be remedied?

• a. By ignoring opposing opinions.
• b. By reinforcing existing beliefs.
• c. By engaging in critical thinking and considering opposing viewpoints.
• d. By avoiding discussions about beliefs.

8. What is the misinformation effect in social perception?

• a. It is the tendency to forget information that contradicts our beliefs.
• b. It is the tendency to reconstruct memories based on biased information.
• c. It is the tendency to remember information that supports our beliefs.
• d. It is the tendency to perceive video evidence differently based on biased memory.

9. How does memory impact social perception?

• a. Memory reconstructs events exactly as they happened.
• b. Memory has no impact on social perception.
• c. Memory can alter or add information to our perceptions.
• d. Memory enhances the accuracy of social perception.

10. What is rosy retrospection in social perception?

• a. It is the tendency to remember negative events more vividly than positive events.
• b. It is the tendency to recall past events accurately and without bias.
• c. It is the tendency to recall positive events as even more positive and forget negative emotions.
• d. It is the tendency to believe that past events were less positive than they actually were.