Question 1

What is a channel factor? How is this concept relevant to the use of health care?

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Question 2

What is a construal? Describe two different ways in which a person might construe the same situation.

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Compare and contrast the evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human behavior.

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What are schemas? Describe one advantage and one disadvantage of using schemas.

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Define social psychology and explain how this field differs from the fields of personality psychology and sociology.

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Describe the emerging field of social neuroscience.What tools are used by social neuroscientists? Describe one interesting finding coming from this field.

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Question 7

Social psychologists have shown that all of the following practices boost happiness EXCEPT

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Social psychologists have consistently found that valuing material goods and wealth is negatively associated with happiness. Instead, valuing experiences and social connections has been found to boost happiness.

Question 8

Describe automatic and controlled processing and give one example of each.

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Describe two aspects of behavior that appear to be universal,meaning that they are common across many different cultures.Why,according to the evolutionary perspective,would different cultures manifest these commonalities?

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Question 10

Many people believe that the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II or by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison were the work of bad seeds.Others believe that almost anyone is vulnerable to these kinds of antisocial behaviors,given the right situational circumstances.Take a stance one way or the other and present two pieces of social psychological research that support your perspective.

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Describe Kurt Lewin's idea of the field of forces.Compare the forces that act on the physical world and those that act on the psychological world.

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Summarize the differences between independent and interdependent cultures.

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Question 13

Now that you know what social psychology is,generate three social psychological research questions to which you would like the answers.

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Describe the benefits of a social psychological approach to understanding why people behave the way they do.That is,how does social psychology go beyond basic human intuition? Why is this important?

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Question 15

Suppose that while you are having dinner at a restaurant,your waiter is curt and fails to answer your questions.What would the fundamental attribution error predict about the cause to which you will attribute the waiter's behavior?

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What is the naturalistic fallacy? Explain how this phenomenon is relevant to racism.

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Quiz 1: An Invitation to Social Psychology