Which of the following statements best illustrates the concept of the halo effect?

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Exam: 250799RR – Psychology for Two or More

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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page

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1. According to your text, whether you’re persuaded by a message will primarily depend on which factor?

A. The nature of the message as it relates to your temperament

B. Your characteristics, including your personality and intelligence

C. Your perception or understanding of the recipient of the message

D. Whether you receive the message while at work or at home

2. The concept of aggression cues is associated with

A. frustration-aggression theory.

B. social learning theories.

C. the work of animal behaviorist Konrad Lorenz.

D. observational learning theories.

3. In respect to the foundations of prejudice, social identity theory is associated with the concept of

A. modern racism.

B. ethnocentrism.

C. self-fulfilling prophecy.

D. stereotypical discrimination.

4. The first stage in the GAS model of stress is

A. adaptation.

B. analyzing a stressor.

C. alarm and mobilization.

D. resistance.

5. A popular talk show host, jovial and sharp-witted as usual, outlines his views on the death penalty,

taking time to consider both sides of the issue. As a long-time listener to that talk show, if you’re swayed to

adopt the talk-show host’s point of view, it will probably be due to

A. your temperament and character.

B. the character of the message.

C. the medium of the message (radio).

D. your tendency to employ peripheral route processing.

6. In hearing a persuasive message, some people will evaluate it in terms of factors that have nothing to do

with the content of the message. When this happens, psychologists speak of _______ route processing.

A. central

B. peripheral

C. incidental

D. inductive

7. In the context of stress, the flip side of an uplift is

A. background chaos.

B. a personal stressor.

C. any cataclysmic event.

D. a hassle.

8. Two psychology students are in a heated discussion about the nature of prejudice. Mavis insists that that

when people get their identity from membership in a political action group, they will generally express

ethnocentrism. Martin argues that with or without ethnocentrism, social identity based in group membership

is inevitably associated with the demonization of minority groups. Who is correct?

A. Martin is correct.

B. Neither Mavis nor Martin is correct.

C. Mavis is correct.

D. Both Mavis and Martin are correct.

9. In general, the approach to stress embraced by psychoneuroimmunologists focuses on

A. the brain and the immune system.

B. the outcomes of stress.

C. psychological factors and the immune system.

D. the brain and the body.

10. Mandy has decided that she has no control over the aversive stimuli she encounters at work and at

home day by day. Thus, she has given up trying to make her life better. Psychologists would say Mandy’s

worldview illustrates