Sally has been studying for her final exam in social psychology. Her roommate quizzes her and asks the term for the idea that natural selection led to greater tendencies to help close relatives over helping those with whom we have little genetic relation. This concept is called:

Albert considers himself to be quite open-minded, but he still believes that the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Albert considers the only way to keep people safe is to try and protect order, cohesion, and tradition. Albert is high in:

Research studies on factors that influence prosocial behaviors indicate that guilt:

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: