Exam 4: Choices and Actions: The Self in Control

When participant's in Bazerman et al.'s (1992) study predicted their reaction to only one of two options presented to them for resolving a financial dispute with a neighbor, which option was generally preferred across participants?

Movies with "R" ratings tend to be more appealing to children and teens than similar movies with "G" or "PG" ratings. This finding is good evidence of ____.

The so-called "status quo bias" in decision-making refers to the tendency for people to ____.

Monitoring oneself is one of the key ingredients in ____.

How do suicidal people tend to think about the future?

Most research focuses on the ____ step of decision-making, which involves ____.

Closing one's eyes, so one does not need to look at a desired (but forbidden) object, is a good way to increase one's

People would make better decisions if they would focus more on the quantitative aspects than the qualitative aspects of the decision.

Who is most likely to experience goal shielding?

According to error management theory, when it comes to making decisions about dating members of the opposite sex, men will be relatively more prone to ____, while women will be relatively more prone to ____.

How do social psychologists refer to the tendency to take whatever course of action does not require you to do anything (also called the default option)?

Suicidal people tend to worry that they will be ____________________to others.

Jonah is in his psychology class and has just gotten his third exam score back. It's an "F" again! He hasn't passed one single exam this semester. He decides to quit studying for that class at all since it hasn't seemed to help much. Jonah is exhibiting ____.

Error management theory suggests that, when it comes to dating and mating members of the opposite sex, men will be more prone to ____ than women.

Goal shielding is the ability to block off consciousness from thinking about one goal to allow a person to focus on the immediate goal at hand.

According to the text, why is it usually a doomed idea to try to diet when you are under stress?

What factors tend to promote decision avoidance?

Entity theorists are more likely than incremental theorists to experience ____________________.

Recent research has demonstrated that men and women perceive certain behaviors differently: Men are more likely than women to assume that an innocent smile is a sign of flirtation, while women are more likely than men to assume that blatant flirtation is merely a sign of friendliness. These research findings are most consistent with ____.

Suicidal people tend to focus more on the ____.