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Social Psychology and Human Nature Brief 3rd Edition by Roy F. Baumeister – Test Bank
CHAPTER 5—Social Cognition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Social cognition refers to a movement within social psychology that focuses on ____.
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how individuals think about social relationships and about other people |
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group thinking and group decision-making |
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cross-cultural differences in how people think and problem-solve |
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conformity, obedience, and crowd mentalities |
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Conceptual
2.The text introduces revolutionary research in social cognition by Mercier and Sperber (2011), who studied ____.
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the tendency for people to argue, in the sense of trying to influence others to their point of view |
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the tendency for people to comply with authority figures even when they know that what they are doing is wrong |
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the tendency for people to feel anonymous when they participate in large, tight-knit groups |
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male-female differences in the content of same-gender relationships |
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Applied
NOTE: New
3.The false consensus effect, the illusory correlation, and the first instinct fallacy are all examples of topics in ____ research.
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attribution theory |
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social cognition |
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motivation |
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prejudice |
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:(So-Called) Errors and BiasesTYPE: Factual
4.The field of social cognition first emerged in the ____ as ____.
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1920s; a discipline that predated and helped to spur the development of cognitive psychology |
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1920s; a discipline that predated and helped to spur the development of, social psychology |
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1970s; a movement within social psychology |
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1970s; a discipline that is replacing social psychology |
ANS:CDIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Factual
5.Before the rise of social cognition, the field of social psychology was dominated by ____.
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the doctrine of behaviorism |
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the doctrine of humanism |
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Freudian theory |
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neo-Freudian-theory |
ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Factual
6.Research indicates that the topic people think about most is ____.
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other people |
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sex |
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work |
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money |
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Factual
7.Current theory and research suggests that the power and size of the human cerebral cortex may have evolved largely in order to ____.
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dominate other species |
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influence other people |
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obtain food |
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fend off predators |
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Factual
NOTE: New
8.The term “cognitive miser” was coined to refer to ____.
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people’s general reluctance to do much extra thinking |
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people’s general reluctance to share their ideas with other people |
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people’s tendency to give themselves the benefit of the doubt in ambiguous situations |
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people’s tendency to blame negative experiences on other people (or on other external circumstances) |
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Conceptual
9.People generally prefer to conserve effort by relying on automatic modes of thought (rather than conscious modes of thought) whenever they can. That is, people tend to ____.
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rely on base rates |
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avoid using scripts |
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make upward comparisons rather than downward comparisons |
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be cognitive misers |
ANS:DDIF:ModerateREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Conceptual
10.Researchers have found that people tend to ____ as little as possible.
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make use of schemas |
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make use of knowledge structures |
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engage in conscious processing |
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engage in automatic, nonconscious processing |
ANS:CDIF:ModerateREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Conceptual
11.The opposite of a cognitive miser would be someone who ____.
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does not care what other people think |
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tends to share his or her ideas freely with others |
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carefully and rationally thinks about each and every decision |
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rarely compares himself or herself with peers |
ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: What Is Social Cognition? TYPE: Conceptual
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