Exam 4: Choices and Actions

Mark is comparing two jobs. One pays $70,000 per year, but will be very stressful. The other pays $60,000, but will be less stressful. According to research presented in your text on Money Matters, Mark will ____.

The existence of absolute free will is undisputed amongst social psychologists.

Which individual is least 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 ____.

Two key reasons that people engage in self-defeating behaviors are because of ____ and because of ____.

Research on decision-making indicates that people tend to place more weight on possible gains than on possible losses when considering the pros and cons of a particular choice.

Research on entity and incremental theorists has shown that, compared to Japanese athletes, American athletes are more likely to be ____ theorists, and thus more likely to view their athletic skills as ____.

Research suggests that goals are MOST helpful in facilitating achievement when they are ____.

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

Sherryl doesn't use online automated bill payment because she wants to have control over when she pays her bills. Even when she has enough money in her account to pay her bills, though, Sherryl still spends her weekend afternoons watching television rather than paying her bills. This is consistent with the idea of ____.

Research on the planning fallacy indicates that we tend to ____ when making predictions about ourselves and we tend to ____ when making predictions about other people.

Research on suicide among humans and non-human animals has shown that ____.

The so-called "planning fallacy" is probably a result of the fact that people adopt a(n) ____.

As described in the text, the standards against which people compare themselves ____ supplied by culture and ____.

The human capacity for ____ offers the best explanation as to why humans kill themselves but nonhuman animals do not kill themselves.