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1. Tammy believes that men are self-centered, manipulative, and insensitive. This belief BEST illustrates which of the following concepts?

D. social stereotype

2. To what does the term "mindlessness" refer?

B. It refers to responding automatically to a situation.

3. Why do we have controlled processes?

A. They allow us to process and interpret novel information.

4. I have just met a person at a party. Based on her physical appearance and the way that she dresses, I have concluded that she is intelligent and aloof. My judgement of this person based on her physical appearance BEST illustrates

D. social cognition.

5. Research on the physical-attractiveness stereotype suggests that, if you had to choose between three equally well-qualified applicants for a job, you would be MOST likely to pick the

A. MOST physically attractive applicant.

6. What is the MOST important influence on the development of schemas?

D. experience

7. Your self-schema is least likely to affect

A. which life events are most beneficial to you.

8. Which of the following is MOST likely to cause us to react mindlessly to events?

D. all the above

9. Diana has a "teacher schema" that includes the belief that, "Teachers like to make students feel stupid." Last week, her algebra teacher tried to help her during class while Diana was struggling with a difficult problem. Given what you know about the relationship between schemas and memory, which of the following is MOST likely to occur?

A. Diana will remember incorrectly that her teacher tried to make her feel stupid.

10. A social stereotype is

D. a type of schema.

11. On average, people who are physically attractive are judged by others to

A. have positive personality characteristics.

12. Self-schemas are most important for the

C. encoding of information related to the self.

13. When engaged in social cognition, we do all of the following EXCEPT:

B. create social information.

14. Which of the following statements about stereotypes is FALSE?

D. Stereotypes cause us to use controlled processes.

15. Research on physical attractiveness has shown that

C. we tend to assign desirable personality characteristics to physically attractive people.

16. Social psychologists believe that people's self-schemas

D. cause them to automatically process information related to the self.

17. In class, I am most likely to use _____ when I talk about a topic that I only recently started to learn about.

C. controlled processes

18. Which of the following tasks typically would NOT involve automatic processes?

A. thinking about your educational goals and how best to achieve them

19. Social stereotypes tend to be MOST beneficial for person perception when

A. members of a stereotyped group generally share similar personality characteristics, beliefs, standards, and values.

20. What is the major advantage of schemas for our ability to respond adaptively to our surroundings?

A. The activation of a schema allows us to respond quickly and effortlessly to a familiar situation.

21. Are people always, or even often, aware of the environmental stimuli that activate their negative social stereotypes?

D. No, social stereotypes are activated unconsciously even in those who consciously reject the stereotypes.

22. The field of cognitive neuroscience focuses primarily on understanding how

D. brain activity produces cognitions.

23. Controlled processes are considered to be part of

C. working memory.

24. Lisa believes that college professors are arrogant, rude, unfriendly, and uncaring. When she went to talk with her psychology professor about a low test score, she found that, as she had expected, he responded to her in an unfriendly, uncaring, rude, and arrogant manner. What surprised her later in the semester was that many other students in her class thought that he was kind, gentle, caring, and very friendly. Which of the following concepts probably is MOST relevant for understanding Lisa's apparently incorrect impression of her psychology professor's personality?

B. self-fulfilling prophecy

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