Studies like Bandura’s bobo doll experiment demonstrate the importance of observational learning. For example, watching someone behave aggressively increases the salience of aggression-related concepts. This demonstrates the power of:

Alvin is meeting another student for the first time to work on a class project. Instantly, when Alvin meets this student, he vaguely reminds him of his good friend MarK. Alvin immediately gets the feeling that he is going to get along well with this new student. What process has just occurred?

Playboy magazine and Victoria Secret have been criticized in the past for specifically focusing on the cultural value placed on women’s appearance. These examples would BEST represent ___________.

In 2003, the newly released policy of Affirmative Action encouraged providing more educational and work opportunities for underrepresented populations such as racial minority groups and women. _____ is a tendency to express negative biases against a racial outgroup by rejecting social policies like Affirmative Action that may be seen as benefiting that group.

Dianne and Marvin had an okay time at their 20th anniversary party. The next year, however, they remembered the anniversary party as fabulous. This is called:

David has the belief that most women fail to appreciate all that men do for them. This is an example of _____, which results in the pairing of contentious beliefs about women with benevolent but patronizing beliefs about them.

Phillip is Asian, and Sandra believes that Phillip will be good in math because “Asian are good at math.” This is an example of:

Psychology is full of historically related events that have influenced sociocultural and political decisions for decades. For example, the Greenberg text describes the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Challenger disaster as examples of:

Janelle was eating dinner at a restaurant and her some people discussing the positive impact of drinking matcha tea in preventing many illnesses. She is initially not persuaded by this information because she is not confident that those people were well-informed. However, several weeks later Janelle can no longer remember the source of this information but does remember the idea that matcha tea consumption may be linked to lower rates of serious illness. Since Janelle forgot the source of the information, she may be vulnerable to the:

Serena has said many times that she does not pay attention race or ethnicity. Instead she has the idea that group identities should be ignored, and that people should be judged solely on their individual merits. Her thinking BEST describes which social psychological concept?