Psychology 230-Exam 2-Form A-Page 7 29. Danise and William got into an argument.

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Psychology 230-Exam 2-Form A-Page 7 29. Danise and William got into an argument. The next day,. Danise re the way they did. According a) "I wonder what I did to make William so angry?" to the actor-observer difference, Danise should think, a bad day but William is just plain nasty c) "William must have had a bad day, but I'm just plain nasty. d) "I wonder what William did to make me so angry?" 30. Stereotypes are unspoken feelings of animosity toward certain groups. negative behaviors directed toward members of particular groups. negative affective responses toward certain groups. generalizations about groups that are often applied to individual group members b) c) 31. By what psychodynamic process were high authoritarians said to redirect their hostility from their parents to all others who were different? a) Repurposing b) Displacement c) Transference 32. Having prior knowledge about a situation can influence how we construe ambiguous information. This is a result of a heavy reliance on a) bottom-up processing. b) top-down processing. c) pluralistic ignorance. the recency effect. d) 33. In class we discussed "selective perception" and identified a number of reasons why it occurs, including the cognitive reason of a) it helps our self-esteem. b) it takes less effort to process information. c) it makes us feel more accepted by others. d) it is an evolved tendency that we cannot control 34. Experiments that employ the minimal group paradigm show that groups that are basis of arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteria tend to show a) ingroup favoritism. b) outgroup favoritism. c) neither ingroup nor outgroup favoritism d) greater ingroup favoritism compared to groups created on the basis of meaningful criteria.

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29 )Actor observer difference is term in social psychology in which person has a tendency to attribute his own causes due to external causes whereas the same person attributes to other person's causes to internal causes. Hence option b

30) Stereotype is widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea about aparticular type of person or thing. hence option d)

31) May be Displacement but it can more be repression which is not there in the option

32) Top Down processing - It refers to development of pattern recognition based on context, here context can mean prior knowledege or gist

33) Selective perception is accepting only those ideas which favourable to mind. This is often used by media in order to win viewers. hence option c)

34) Minimal group paradigm is group bias which arose from personal interest of group members or from conflict. Hence option a)

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