THE SOCIAL ANIMAL TWELFTH EDITION BY ELLIOT ARONSON, JOSHUA ARONSON

THE SOCIAL ANIMAL TWELFTH EDITION BY ELLIOT ARONSON, JOSHUA ARONSON

Aronson defines social psychology as: A) how people learn to behave in accordance with society's rules B) the influences that people have on our beliefs and the behavior of others C) how societies and social groups work D) the study of roles and social norms 2. In his first chapter, Aronson defines social psychology as the study of: A) human behavior and mental processes B) people and events C) social influence D) actions that are crazy 3. “The influences that people have upon our beliefs and behavior and of how we influence others” is the text's definition of: A) dispositions B) the self-fulfilling prophecy C) the hindsight effect D) social psychology 4. Aronson states, “People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.” By this, he means that: A) situations can cause most normal people to behave in abnormal ways B) psychosis, at least from a social psychological point of view, does not exist C) people generally think of others in very much the same way they think of themselves D) human behavior can be explained by using the scientific method 5. Once we know the outcome of an event, we have the sense that we knew all along that things would turn out as they did. The term for this phenomenon is: A) the hindsight bias B) commonsense social psychology C) the self-fulfilling prophecy D) the “déj vu” effect