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Several historical social psychology experiments examine the impact of World War II and the Holocaust to better understand human behavior. For example, part of Nazi propaganda portrayed Jews as disease-carrying rats which is an example of:

Manual has been a professional ballet dancer with the Houston Ballet Company for the past decade . Having an audience watch him dance is most likely to:

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:

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 ___________.

Spreading of alternatives is a strategy that gets used in:

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.

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?

Raymond is picked by his teacher for a group project. He knows that the class valedictorian is in his group, so Raymond does not work as hard as her or the other group members on the project. Raymond might be engaging in:

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:

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