You’ve always disliked a particular coworker who strikes you as dishonest, but he is nice to you and does you favors, so you become friendly with him despite your misgivings. One day you learn that he stole personal items from your desk. You now decide to discontinue the friendship. Your negative attitude toward this coworker is strengthened through __________.

According to the text, we tend to __________ attractive people more than we do less attractive people.

The hormone associated with aggression seems to be __________.

According to social identity theory, individuals view their own group favorably so as to __________.

The stress resulting from the need to change and adapt to the dominant or majority culture is called __________.

Which of the following methods of acculturation is likely to result in MODERATE levels of acculturative stress?

The classic Robber’s Cave study showed that prejudice can be reduced by __________.

The Robber’s Cave experiment showed that __________ reduces us-them hostility.

When faced with an approach-avoidance conflict, some people tend to go back and forth with their choice because they cannot decide for or against the goal or event. The text refers to this mind-changing behavior as __________.

“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” your young son asks frantically. “Can we please buy a new PlayStation®4 console with all of the games and the wireless controllers so that we don’t have to sit near the television?” “No,” you reply, “we can’t afford to buy all of that!” Seemingly unperturbed by your rejection, your son comes back with “Then can we just buy one new game for our PlayStation®3?” “Okay, I guess so,” you answer, not realizing that your precocious son has taken a social psychology class and has just used the __________ technique to get what he wants.