Devine’s work on the activation of stereotypes demonstrated that______processing of information about people is beyond conscious awareness whereas_______processing of information about people is deliberate and conscious.

A. Automatic; controlled
B. Controlled; automatic
C. Schematic; revised
D. Subtype; evaluative

Once development and strengthened through use schemas become integrated structures. Which of the following statements relating to the relationship between schemas and new information is also accurate?

A. Well development schemas change readily when faced with disconfirming evidence.
B. The idea of exceptions to the rule is consistent with the sub-typing model model of stereotype change.
C. In the book-keeping model disconfirming instances of the stereotype are relegated to ‘exceptional’ sub-categories largely intact.
D. The conversion model proposes that there is fine-tuning of a schema with each new piece of information.

What are the specific qualities of schemas that make them useful for organizing our experiences and information in the social world?

A. schemas preserve cognitive resources
B. schemas facilitate recall of information
C. schemas are based on exopectations and prior experience
D. schemas can cue emotions

Identify the CORRECT statement with regard to the self-serving bias:

A. This strength of the self-serving bias is the same across cultures
B. We tend to attribute our success to internal factors and our failure to external factors
C. The usual explanation for the self-serving bias relates to cognitive factors.
D. Attributing success to external causes has been referred has been referred to as the self-enhancing bias.

Societally recognized mental representations of social groups and their members that include behavioural and trait charecteristics groups are referred to as_______.

A. Role schemes
B. Person schemas
C. Actor-observer effects
D. Stereotypes

The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images was:

A. Behaviorism
B. Structuralism
C. Humanism
D. Psychoanalysis

The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feeling and images was:

A. Behaviorism
B. Structuralism
C. Humanism
D. Psychoanalysis

Comparative psychologists are primarily interested in:

A. Stimulus-response connections.
B. Animal behavior
C. The comparison of functional and behavioral psychology.
D. The comparison of different types of psychotherapy

The psychodynamic view emphasizes the role of______________in development

A. External rewards and punishments
B. Internal impulses, desires, and conflicts
C. Subjective experiences, potentials and ideals
D. Physiology, genetics , biochemistry, and evolution

Developmental psychologists study the effects of ___________ on behavior

A. Marketing
B. Learning disabilities
C. Aging
D. Robotics