PSY 105 Quiz 10 Recent

	Cognitive frameworks consisting of knowledge and beliefs about specific social groups – frameworks suggesting that by and large, all members of these groups possess certain traits – are called

	The central route to persuasion refers to

	The process of attribution would apply most directly to which of these questions?

	The correspondence bias is the tendency to explain the behavior of others in terms of __________ causes.

	A type of social influence in which individuals change their attitudes or behavior in order to adhere to existing social norms is known as

	Which of the following factors increases the chances that intergroup contact will reduce prejudice?

	Suppose you see a mother grab her child and pull him back sharply. If you decide the mother has done this to protect the child from a passing car, you have made a(n) __________ attribution.

	The topics of attribution, prejudice, social influence, and love are most likely to be studied by __________ psychologists.

	Lasting evaluations of various aspects of the social world are called

Which of these illustrates someone using the foot-in-the-door technique to borrow $20.00?

Primitive centers for vision and hearing reflexes are located in the

The evolutionary perspective suggests that we inherit __________, which will be enhanced by environmental factors.

The neurotransmitter that is involved in the control of wakefulness and alertness is

Endorphins are chemicals in the brain that produce effects similar to

It appears that our brains process information in a

Chemicals known as __________ travel across the synaptic gap to specialized receptor sites on the next neuron.

The brain structure that controls the body’s activity level, including sleep and wakefulness, is the

Researchers sometimes destroy portions of the brains of animals in order to

The __________ lobe is concerned with vision.

The __________ is a key brain area for the regulation of emotions.