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Social Thinking and Behavior Study Guide

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What is the planning fallacy?

Underestimating the time it will take to complete a task (correct)
Overestimating the speed and strength of the psychological immune system
Overestimating the time it will take to complete a task
Underestimating the impact of an emotion-causing event

What is the basis of self-esteem according to the text?

Fundamental human need to maintain or enhance self-esteem (correct)
Need to maintain or enhance self-esteem due to cultural influences
Psychological immune system's impact on self-evaluations
Tendency to overestimate the enduring impact of an emotion-causing event

What are the consequences of high, but contingent self-esteem according to the text?

Buffers social rejection and anxiety
Associated with aggression, bullying, and narcissism (correct)
Risk of internalizing psychological disorders
Tends to be correlated with negative outcomes

How does culture impact the basis of self-esteem according to the text?

It affects self-evaluations by making them more relational in interdependent selves (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen it?

Hindsight bias (A) Signup and view all the answers

How are our social intuitions described in the text?

Powerful and perilous (D) Signup and view all the answers

What does social neuroscience emphasize about human behavior?

It is a result of both nature and nurture (D) Signup and view all the answers

What does experimental research in social psychology emphasize the ability to control?

Variables, setting, timing, etc. (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the Principle of aggregation?

The effects of an attitude on behavior become more apparent when we look at a person’s aggregate (average) behavior rather than isolated acts (B) Signup and view all the answers

What does the Theory of planned behavior suggest?

Attitudes toward specific behaviors are the best predictors of behavioral intentions (A) Signup and view all the answers

When will attitudes predict behavior?

When social influences are minimal (C) Signup and view all the answers

What do we measure when people may not honestly report their explicit attitude?

Implicit attitudes (B) Signup and view all the answers