Exam 2: Fundamentals of Social Behavior

Which of the following is NOT a secondary emotion?

Terror management theory specifies all of the following important functions of cultural worldviews EXCEPT which function?

The two primary components of the process of natural selection are:

Humans are primarily distinguished from other species by the extent to which they possess:

Research suggests that positive emotions are associated with _____ motivation,while negative emotions are associated with _____ motivation.

Thoughts or actions that occur without conscious attention are called _____,while those that occur through conscious,deliberative effort are called _____.

The organizational structure of goals ranging from the abstract to the concrete is called:

_____ and _____ are the two primary sources of the variability necessary for natural selection.

As a college senior,Ali is about to participate in his university commencement ceremony.What is the most precise social psychological description of what Ali is about to do?

While a melting-pot view of culture tends to encourage _____,a multicultural view tends to encourage _____.

While individualistic cultures tend to emphasize _____,collectivistic cultures tend to emphasize _____.

The idea that what is evolved or observed in the biological world is inherently good is referred to as:

According to research by Schwartz and colleagues,the most important cross-cultural value is:

Data from Germany suggest that the people there tend to cognitively separate parts of scenes out from the whole.They pay attention to the differences between objects and how they contrast with and are separate from one another and from the background.This suggests that Germany is a(n)_____ culture.

According to W.Lloyd Warner,culture helps people adapt to which three aspects of their environment?

Hedonistic avoidance and approach correspond to two basic motivational orientations that guide human behavior.These are _____ and _____.

Which of the following theories proposes that people invest in a cultural worldview and their sense of self-esteem in order to protect themselves from the anxiety of death awareness?

Jasmine is walking down the street and sees a homeless man shivering on the corner.As she moves on,she decides that the man must be fundamentally immoral and lazy,and that's why he's homeless.Jasmine's interpretation is evidence that she:

Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?

In Nisbett's account of East-West differences,all of the following is true about holistic thinking EXCEPT which statement?