When someone is at the top of the social hierarchy, the system appears to be working in their favor. These people are likely to tend to see and accept inequality among different groups, and are thus likely to be high in a personality dimension known as:
Mortimer is the best-performing person in his group. The gro…
Mortimer is the best-performing person in his group. The group’s overall performance on a task is determined by Mortimer’s performance, which means that the group is performing a:
Privatization is the process of dividing public goods into s…
Privatization is the process of dividing public goods into smaller pieces so that each individual is responsible for a small share, rather than the whole group being trusted with all of the public goods. Privatization, according to the text, tends to _____________ competition.
Please match the constructs with Affect, Behavior, or Cognit…
Please match the constructs with Affect, Behavior, or Cognition: Discrimination
When we use very small amounts of information to make surpri…
When we use very small amounts of information to make surprisingly accurate judgments of other people, we are using which concept coined by Malcolm Gladwell?
Wally uses a wheelchair to get around. When people try to he…
Wally uses a wheelchair to get around. When people try to help him without asking if he needs it, Wally feels insulted and angry; he feels that the implication of the help is that other people don’t think that he can take care of himself. Wally perceives that type of help as:
The ____________ is the tendency to make dispositional attri…
The ____________ is the tendency to make dispositional attributions about your ingroup’s successes, and situational attributions for ingroup failures, while making the opposite pattern of attributions for outgroup successes and failures.
If people reduce their prejudices by interacting with people…
If people reduce their prejudices by interacting with people from other groups, they are showing evidence of the:
Emily is a little nerdy, and loves participating in team mat…
Emily is a little nerdy, and loves participating in team math competitions on weekends. Her team works together to arrive at a clearly correct answer to the problem that is being posed, which means that they are engaging in a:
Karen is having a bad day at work- her car broke down on her…
Karen is having a bad day at work- her car broke down on her commute, her boss is being unreasonable, and her officemate with whom she shares a cubicle just blabbed a spoiler for this week’s episode of Westworld. When her computer malfunctions, Karen feels like being very aggressive, and that she hasn’t obtained the goals she set for herself for the day. This form of negative affect that impacts aggressive behavior is known as: