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Denise perceives her fellow New Yorkers as diverse in their beliefs and behaviors, but perceives all southerners as close-minded, religious bigots. ‘Southerners are all the same because that’s just the way they all are,’ says Denise. Her biased perception best characterizes which concept?

Eric does not know how to answer the cognitive dissonance essay question on his psychology test. He decides to write as many random facts as he can recall about attitudes instead of actually writing about cognitive dissonance theory, hoping the professor will not read the essay closely but will be sufficiently impressed by the length of the essay to give him a good score.  Eric is hoping to take advantage of the:

All of the following are conditions that makes social loafing less likely to occur EXCEPT:

Cacioppo & Petty used sensors placed at various points on the face to recorded facial muscle activity of subjects as the listened to a message with which they agreed or disagreed. The results indicated that listening to a(an) __________ message increases activity in the __________.

Participants in a study (Ingham, 1974) were asked to pull on a rope with as much force as possible.  Results indicated participants pulled 20% harder when they thought they were pulling alone than when they believed they were part of a group. This finding best illustrates:

While watching a debate between two candidates, Maria’s attitude is significantly influenced by the eloquent style of speech and lengthy resume of one of the candidates. Maria is demonstrating:

A persuasive message in which both sides of an issue are addressed (but one side is favored) is more likely to be effective on an audience that is:

Denise perceives her fellow New Yorkers as diverse in their beliefs and behaviors, but perceives all southerners as close-minded, religious bigots. ‘Southerners are all the same because that’s just the way they all are,’ says Denise. Her biased perception best characterizes which concept?

While watching a debate between two candidates, Maria’s attitude is significantly influenced by the eloquent style of speech and lengthy resume of one of the candidates. Maria is demonstrating:

Research on brainstorming in groups demonstrates that: