Exam 15: Application Module A: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior

One of the key barriers to solving environmental problems such as overpopulation and global warming is ____.

Which personality characteristic is NOT associated with successful leaders?

In consumer psychology, the term shrinkage refers to ____.

The critical incident technique (CIT)uses critical incidents or behaviors that discriminate between ____ behavior for someone performing the job.

Humans obtain approximately ____% of their energy from nonrenewable, nonsustainable resources such as oil, coal, and gas.

Conspicuous consumption refers to cases in which people ____.

If everyone in North America stopped smoking today, the death rates due to cancer would drop by close to ____.

From an advertiser's point of view, one of the strengths of social media is the ____.

People with a(n)____ personality are more likely to hold conventional values, respect authority figures, and punish others who defy authority.

_____ applied the concept of homeostasis to the study of human interactions with the environment.

Suppose that you are a ninth grade teacher, and you are trying to get your students to conserve more water and energy in their daily lives. Which of the following approaches is likely to be least successful?

Successful green marketing targets a larger population with products and services that anyone might be able to use while simultaneously ____.

After a badly rusted storage tank leaked into the river that supplies drinking water for a large region, the owners of the tank deliberately withhold information about the chemicals that had been stored in the tank. This is best described as the ____ trap.

Worldwide, the population increases by about ____ million people annually.

____ territories are open to anyone who is not specifically excluded.

If you need to know about the tasks, knowledge, skills, work activities, wages, and employment outlook for a number of different jobs, what online resource would be most helpful?

A survey of 300 professionals involved in their company's hiring process indicated that ____ use social networking sites to screen prospective employees and that they have rejected applicants based on what they found on those sites.

Are there any differences in health between people who have solid social support and people who don't?

Two or more employees who "(a)exist to perform organizationally relevant tasks, (b)share one or more common goals, (c)interact socially, (d)exhibit task interdependencies (i.e., work flow, goals, outcomes), (e)maintain and manage boundaries, and (f)are embedded in an organizational context that sets boundaries, constrains the team, and influences exchanges with other units in the broader entity" form a(n)____.

Edward has a really difficult co-worker. They are constantly in conflict over how to use the limited resources in the office. Edward offers to take the co-worker out to lunch and over lunch, they discuss how they can manage their respective needs for the office resources with less conflict. Edward has used ____ coping.