“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.

__________ are habitual targets of displaced aggression.

Luciana is trying to decide whether to vote for a political candidate. Based on what she has read about him, she has concluded that he is not qualified for the position, but she agrees with his political positions. Also, she trusts him and likes his decisive personality. In fact, she likes him so much that she sent a small donation to his campaign. Luciana’s trust of the candidate represents the __________ component of her attitude toward him.

Which three terms are used to describe the way in which hardy people differ from many Type A people and others who suffer more ill effects due to stress?

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

Matias moved from Argentina to France. He chose not to learn to speak and write French, continues to maintain his old culture’s styles of dress and customs, and lives in a neighborhood where only people from Argentina live. Matias has used which method of entering the majority culture?

Individuals who choose to neither maintain contact with their original culture nor join the majority culture are considered __________.

Which of the following is the correct definition of cognitive dissonance?

In Festinger and Carlsmith’s (1959) classic study on cognitive dissonance, participants who were paid $20 for doing a boring task, in contrast to those who were paid $1 for doing the same task, __________.

Which of the following is the correct definition of cognitive dissonance?