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Joe is gearing up to deliver a campaign speech to a group of individuals who he believes have a high need for cognition. Prior to delivering his speech, Joe should focus his efforts on which of the following?

A negative learned attitude towards particular groups of people is best defined as:

______________ are simple rules that reduce mental effort and allow us to make decisions or judgments quickly.

A teacher who wants to reduce prejudice in her classroom and promote acceptance and harmony assigns the students to complete group projects where the final grade is dependent on each group member completing their assigned task. The teacher is utilizing what technique?

A form of social influence that involves direct requests from one person to another person is called:

Children in the blue eye/brown eye experiment, described in the beginning of the chapter, demonstrated prejudice as a result of influence from their teacher as well as from the intolerant culture in which they lived. Which of the following perspectives best highlights the influence from both the immediate environment and society?

Helping behavior is more likely to take place in ________than in ________ settings.

During her childhood, Holly sees that her mother disapproves of same-sex marriages. Through watching her mother, Holly ends up adopting a similar viewpoint. This could be considered an example of what type of learning?

A parent hits a child for misbehaving and then later on that child hits his sibling for breaking a toy. Assuming the child hit his sibling because he was imitating his parent’s behavior, this would be an example of ______________.

A(n)________leader rewards good behavior, but ultimately only takes action when something goes wrong.