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

Which of the following statements best summarizes the cognitive appraisal model of stress developed by Lazarus?

A request made by an attorney that a potential juror be removed from the jury panel because he or she is clearly biased and will be unable to hear the case fairly is called a(n)____.

Personalization-for example putting up pictures and cartoons in one's cubicle at work-is an example of ____.

Suppose that Danielle was an eyewitness to a store robbery. She gives the police a description of the criminal: "30-35 year-old male, brown hair, light eyes, about 5'10", with a missing finger on his left hand." A few weeks later, police track down a suspect. He fits Danielle's description, and additionally has a lazy eye and a huge tattoo on his neck. If police use the match-to-culprit approach in constructing a lineup for eyewitness identification, then the foils in the lineup ____.

A high-context culture is ____ than a low-context culture.

When it comes to eyewitness identifications in police lineups, sequential lineups are generally preferred to simultaneous lineups-especially when witnesses ____.

The most respected jobs of 2013 based on ratings of the honesty and ethical standards of occupations include ____.

Worldwide, about _____ people die every day from hunger- or malnutrition-related diseases every day.

Rossi is suspected of committing a robbery and appears in a lineup in which the store clerk claims that he is the robber. As it turns out, Rossi simply looks remarkably like the person who committed the crime, but did not, himself, commit the crime. Rossi has been a victim of ____.

A teenager riding in the backseat of a car watches someone throw a match onto a hillside. The fire will not be detected by local authorities for several hours, at which point acres and acres of land will have been scorched. The teenager, having not reported what he saw to anyone, apparently fell into the social trap known as ____.

The three broad segments of health psychology are _____.

According to the text, when police use lineup procedures to obtain identifications of criminals from eyewitnesses, which is better, the match-to-suspect approach or the match-to-culprit approach?

Tim is simultaneously talking on his cell phone, checking an instant message, listening to a CD, and browsing the web. Consumer psychologists would say that he is engaged in ____.

In general, which of the following best summarizes how convincing eyewitness testimony is to jurors?

Delaying a trial is known as a(n)____.

A(n)____ is defined as a person's subjective probability that he or she will perform the behavior in question.

Kat tells her daughters that whomever does the most work will earn the biggest allowance that week. At the end of the week, her younger daughter has done far more work than her older daughter. Consequently, the younger daughter gets twice the payment as her older sister. "That's not fair! I was saving up for some earrings." complains the older sister. Which sort of "fairness" is the older sister upset about?

The tendency for shared or jointly owned resources to be wasted, or used in a less-than-optimal way, is known as ____.

The process organizations use to identify qualified individuals for a job is ____.

Phil comes to work late, routinely misses meetings, and always uses the office copier for personal business. Phil is engaged in ____.