You receive more than one marriage proposal. According to dissonance theory, after you decide who you wish to spend your life with, you will _____ the individual whose proposal you accepted.

Andrew’s mom tells him that she went to the store and bought enough cupcakes so that each member of the family could have one. Andrew really loves cupcakes, so he takes two. This results in one family member losing their cupcake. This is an example of:  

When faced with potentially dangerous situations where strangers need help, _________.  

When men and women want empathy and understanding, they are most likely to turn to a _______.

Although Lenny thinks the speed limit of the highway should be 80 instead of 70 miles per hour, when the policeman tells him to slow down to 70, he immediately does without questioning him. This is an example of ________. 

The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next are called _________.  

Rewarding people for doing what they already enjoy may lead them to attribute their action to the reward. If so, this would undermine their self-perception that they do it because they like it. This is called ____________.

The idea that evolution has selected altruism toward one’s close relatives to enhance the survival of mutually shared genes is referred to as _________.  

In a park, a guy you do not know sits near you. His mere presence affects your behavior even though he is doing nothing. In the context of social facilitation, this person is best described as a(n)_______.

During a hospital stay, you observed a man and a woman, both in health professional attire, talking to each other. You assumed that the man was a physician and that the woman was a nurse. Later, you found out the opposite to be true. What type of heuristic did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals?