1. Which of the following is the best synonym for “construal”?
a. conclude
b. believe
c. interpret
d. judge
2. When baby Lexi smiles, her mother claps her hands, sings her praises, and smiles back. According to the
__________ perspective, Lexi will smile more in the future.
a. Gestalt
b. social psychological
c. behavioral
d. social cognitive
3. Jerrika researched and developed a program to reduce high school dropout rates among minorities. Jerrika is
most likely a __________.
a. social psychologist
b. biological psychologist
c. evolutionary psychologist
d.
behaviorist
4. Julia eats granola bars and avoids chocolate bars, even though the granola bars contain 50 percent more fat and
15 percent more sodium than the chocolate bars. According to a social cognition approach, why might Julia do
that?
a. She is motivated to see herself as a healthy person.
b. She is motivated to convince her friends that she is a healthy person.
c. She failed to seek out all the relevant facts about the nutritional value of those snacks.
d. She needs to justify paying more for the granola bar.
5. One potential problem of justifying past behavior in order to protect our self-esteem is that __________.
a. people tend to become narcissistic
b. people distort reality and deny any negative information about themselves
c. it hinders people from learning from their past mistakes
d. it leads people to present themselves as being better than they really are
6. What do social psychology and personality psychology have in common?
7. What makes social psychologists want to understand social influence?