Social Psychology and Human Nature Brief 3rd Edition by Roy F. Baumeister - Test Bank

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CHAPTER 5—Social Cognition

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1.Social cognition refers to a movement within social psychology that focuses on ____.

a.

how individuals think about social relationships and about other people

b.

group thinking and group decision-making

c.

cross-cultural differences in how people think and problem-solve

d.

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 ____.

a.

the tendency for people to argue, in the sense of trying to influence others to their point of view

b.

the tendency for people to comply with authority figures even when they know that what they are doing is wrong

c.

the tendency for people to feel anonymous when they participate in large, tight-knit groups

d.

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.

a.

attribution theory

b.

social cognition

c.

motivation

d.

prejudice

ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:(So-Called) Errors and BiasesTYPE: Factual

4.The field of social cognition first emerged in the ____ as ____.

a.

1920s; a discipline that predated and helped to spur the development of cognitive psychology

b.

1920s; a discipline that predated and helped to spur the development of, social psychology

c.

1970s; a movement within social psychology

d.

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 ____.

a.

the doctrine of behaviorism

b.

the doctrine of humanism

c.

Freudian theory

d.

neo-Freudian-theory

ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Factual

6.Research indicates that the topic people think about most is ____.

a.

other people

b.

sex

c.

work

d.

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 ____.

a.

dominate other species

b.

influence other people

c.

obtain food

d.

fend off predators

ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Factual

NOTE: New

8.The term “cognitive miser” was coined to refer to ____.

a.

people’s general reluctance to do much extra thinking

b.

people’s general reluctance to share their ideas with other people

c.

people’s tendency to give themselves the benefit of the doubt in ambiguous situations

d.

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 ____.

a.

rely on base rates

b.

avoid using scripts

c.

make upward comparisons rather than downward comparisons

d.

be cognitive misers

ANS:DDIF:ModerateREF:What Is Social Cognition?TYPE: Conceptual

10.Researchers have found that people tend to ____ as little as possible.

a.

make use of schemas

b.

make use of knowledge structures

c.

engage in conscious processing

d.

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 ____.

a.

does not care what other people think

b.

tends to share his or her ideas freely with others

c.

carefully and rationally thinks about each and every decision

d.

rarely compares himself or herself with peers

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: What Is Social Cognition? TYPE: Conceptual

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