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What is Ekman’s facial action coding system used for?
a) Shows which cultures feel which emotions
b) Shows which faces babies can recognize
c) Shows which specific muscles in the face produce which emotions
d) Labels which basic emotions are what facial expression

In the Cialdini et al. (1976) study, students wearing their school’s colors the day after their school won a big game is an example of what phenomenon?
a) Social Comparison
b) “BIRG”ing
c) Illusion of control
d) “CORF”ing

People generally frame the pursuit of a goal in one of two ways. These include ______.
a) Contemplative and Action
b) Assimilation and Accommodation
c) Selfishness and Altruism
d) Prevention and Promotion

Ted volunteers at the animal shelter because he enjoys the work. He is driven by ______motivation to do this work.
a) Intrinsic
b) Emotion-focused
c) Extrinsic
d) Altruistic

_____ is a mental framework that organizes knowledge about ourselves.
a) Self-Esteem
b) Self-Schema
c) Self-Recognition
d) Self-Concept

What tends to be the view of self in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe?
a) Interdependent
b) Internal
c) Collective
d) Independent

When people mentally compare themselves to others in order to understand their own abilities, they are using ______.
a) Social Comparison
b) Cooperative Analysis
c) Out-group Bias
d) Ability Discrimination

Carol believes that individuals are born either smart, average, or below average, and no amount of studying or learning will change that. What's her mindset?
a) Growth
b) Fixed
c) Mastery
d) Social Comparison

You can see the self in two ways: me is the self-as-known, while the ___ is the self-as-knower.
a) Ego
b) Id
c) Self as a motivated agent
d) I

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents a strong positive correlation?
a) r = -.05
b) r = .00
c) r = -1
d) r = .99

A ___ is our mental idea of how we’d like things to turn out.
a) Motivation
b) Goal
c) Emotion
d) Self-Concept

Ash said no to a doughnut earlier because of his diet but is having a hard time resisting later. This is an example of:
a) Ego Depletion
b) Intrinsic motivation
c) Growth mindset
d) Prevention

Will places participants into his control group by drawing names from a hat. He is using ____ to choose groups.
a) Convenience Sampling
b) Random Sampling
c) Random Assignment
d) Experimental Assignment

What is a negative effect of upward social comparison?
a) Inspiration
b) Envy
c) Gratitude
d) Scorn

Martha measured how many words participants said while sitting with 2 vs 10 people in a group. What is the Dependent Variable?
a) Amount of words participants said
b) Sitting with 2 people
c) Number of Others
d) Sitting with 10 people

People perform better when with others than when alone. This is known as:
a) Informed Consent
b) Ecological Validity
c) Social Facilitation
d) Self-schema

What is the first step of the scientific method?
a) Measure
b) Hypothesize
c) Operationalize
d) Evaluate

A researcher must ____ their variables by defining how they will measure them.
a) Manipulate
b) Prime
c) Operationalize
d) Validate

A researcher went to the store and counted how many people said thank you to the cashier. What type of design is this?
a) Archival Research
b) Naturalistic Observation
c) Laboratory Experiment
d) Survey Research

Lisa has played piano for 6 years. When she considers how her skills compare to more advanced players she is using ____.
a) Downward Comparison
b) Growth mindset
c) Upward Comparison
d) Self-enhancement

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