Social Psychology Questions

Important and distinctive personal characteristics form the __________.

In ________ cultures social connections are experienced as the core of the self.

________ comparisons involve comparing ourselves with others who are less fortunate.

The motivation of feeling good about oneself is called the _________ motive.

The self-concept, once formed, is relatively _______ to change.

An ________ is an interpretation of an event, including both the causes and how the event affects the self.

By imitating facial expressions we can evoke the accompanying _________.

The person we would like to be is referred to as the ________ self.

_________ selves generally involve negative outcomes that people try to avoid.

Individuals who are primarily guided by the ought self or other standards representing duties or obligations have a ________ focus.

Attempting to demonstrate the self-concept through actions is referred to as _________.

__________ self-monitors typically shape their behaviors to project the impression they think their current audience demands.

The most negative result of repeated experiences of lack of ________ is learned helplessness.

The confidence in our ability to produce the outcomes we desire is termed _________.

A positive or negative evaluation of a social group and its members is termed _________.

An overall pattern of paternalistic attitudes toward women that actually reinforces this group’s weakness and dependence is called ________ sexism.

Adorno et al. (1950) argued that hatred for social groups, as well as the accompanying extreme negative stereotypes, have their roots in the inner conflicts of those with __________ personalities.

A perceived correlation between two characteristics, which are not actually related, is termed an _________ correlation.

_______ adapt rapidly as the social roles occupied by a group change.

__________  conditioning occurs when a person or object that has been repeatedly paired with a particular emotion begins itself to elicit the emotion.

When stereotypes and prejudices are deeply embedded in the social __________ of a culture, people learn them naturally as a part of growing up.

The stereotypes prevalent in a society often serve to ________ existing social inequalities.

The belief that people deserve what they get and get what they deserve is termed as the just- _______ belief.

When a stereotype is well learned and often used, its activation becomes ___________.

The implicit association test has been used to measure people’s automatic __________ of social groups with positive or negative evaluations.

Morning people stereotype others _________ after lunch.

Tactics to overcome stereotype effects require motivation and ________ capacity.

When information is ___________, activation of a stereotype influences our interpretation of the behavior.

The _______ hypothesis suggests that stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination can be reduced under certain conditions by direct contact between members of different groups.

The idea that a stereotype can be changed by a single inconsistent experience is called ___________.

Forming a __________ that allows the stereotype to hold for most members of the specific group merely means that we create an "exception-to-the-rule" category.

When a group member shows unexpected behavior, this causes a ________ effect.

Contact that works to overcome stereotype defenses has to provide stereotypic-inconsistent information that is repeated, which involves many __________  group members.

Stereotypes operate on two levels; in an individual’s head and in __________.

_________  cultures foster and reinforce views of the self in group terms.

The tendency to play up group membership that makes us feel good about ourselves is known as the tendency to ___________.

Perceived differences between our group and the out-group satisfy the need for __________.

There exists a _________ bias when people describe actions of in- and out-group members.

The tendency to perceive out-group members as "they are all alike" compared to the in-group is called the out-group _________ effect.

The cross-race __________ bias entails that people can recognize faces of own ethnic in-group members more easily than faces of other ethnicity groups.