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2. What are two types of uncertainty?
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Behavioral and cognitive
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3. Carol swims laps every day. She also believes that exercise is an important way to maintain her health. Cognitive dissonance theory suggests that Carol’s beliefs and behaviors are ______.
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Consonant
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4. What are the explanations that we have about our own and others’ behavior?
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Attributions
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5. According to uncertainty reduction theory, humans seek to ______ uncertainty.
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Minimize
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6. Expectancy violations theory claims that two conditions will lead a person to reciprocate positive behavior. What are these conditions?
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Positive violation valence and positive communicator reward valence
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7. Juan explained to his boss that he was late to work because of his car accident. His boss said Juan should blame the other driver’s poor driving skills. Juan’s boss attributed his accident to ______ factors.
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Dispositional
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8. Jessica smokes cigarettes even though she knows that smoking is harmful to her health. The relationship between Jessica’s cognitions and behaviors is ______.
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Dissonant
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9. Juan was on his way to work when another car hit his bumper. Juan was upset, but believed that the accident happened because of poor weather conditions. According to attribution theory, Juan explained what happened using ______ factors.
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Situational
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10. Expectancy violations theory asserts that humans have two competing needs. What are they?
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Personal space and affiliation
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11. Violation valence is the ________ evaluation of an expectation
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B & C
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12. Social Desirability is being opposite to social conventions
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False
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13. Situational factors are _______ causes for behavior
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External
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14. Selective retention is dismissing or forgetting information that creates
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Dissonance
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15. Deciphering ambiguous information so it is perceived to be consistent with established beliefs is known as
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Selective interpretation
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16. Actively avoiding information __________ with previously established beliefs or behaviors is known as Selective Exposure
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Inconsistent
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17. Schema is a cognitive structure for organizing new information.
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True
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18. Engaging in the same behavior as someone else is known as
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Reciprocating
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19. To rationalize is the ability to justify
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Dissonance
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20. Postdecision theory focuses on how people make sense of their decisions after they have made them.
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True
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21. Personalism is the belief that an actor specifically and intentionally behaves in ways that are
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Both
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22. Magnitude of dissonance is the _____________ produced when experiencing conflicting behaviors and beliefs.
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Degree of discomfort
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23. ____________ refers to beliefs and behaviors that have nothing to do with each other.
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Irrelevance
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24. In interactive strategy one goes directly to the source who has the most information.
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True
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25. Incentive is the extent to which an individual can provide
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Both
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26. The degree to which an individual believes an actor’s behavior directly affects him or her.
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Hedonic relevance
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27. Which of the following describes exterior locus of control
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All of the above
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28. What an individual anticipates will happen in a given situation is known as
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Expectancy
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29. The proportion of incongruent beliefs held in relation to the number of consonant beliefs is known as
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Dissonance ratio
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30. Dissonance is _________ between attitudes and behavior.
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Incongruence
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31. Which of the following is a dispositional factor
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All of the above
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32. Deviance is a behaviour that is according to expectation of typical behavior.
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False
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33. Judgments about an actor’s intentions when a dispositional attribution is made are known as
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Correspondent inferences
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34. Consonance is congruence in two stimuli
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True
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35. Consistency is the extent to which an individual believes a ________ typically behaves in a particular fashion.
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Target other
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36. The extent to which an individual believes most people would behave in a given fashion is known as
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Consensus
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37. Compensating is making up for _______ behavior
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Someone else's
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38. Valence is the extent to which the violator is perceived as
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A & B
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39. Cognitive uncertainty is uncertainty about how someone should _______ about a given situation.
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Both
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40. Cognitive uncertainty is uncertainty about how someone should _______ about a given situation.
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Both
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41. In psychology, the focus on the internal processes that occur between cause and effect is known as
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Cognitive
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42. Cognition includes the processes of _______ and storing stimuli.
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All of the above
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43. Behaviorism is a narrow focus on
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Cause and effect
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44. Uncertainty as to how someone should behave in a given situation is known as
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Behavioral uncertainty
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45. Axiom refers to a fundamental lie
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False
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46. The answer to the question “why did that person behave in that fashion?” is reffered to as
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Attribution
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