Question 1

Hummert and colleagues found in their research that, people of all ages

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A)   strongly favored the old over the young.
B)   strongly favored the young over the old.
C)   showed no difference if favor toward the young or old.
D)   weakly favored the young over the old.

Question 2

Which of the following is not a characteristic associated with emotional intelligence?

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A)   the ability to recognize your own emotions and the emotions of others
B)   the ability to correctly identify and appropriately tell the difference between emotions
C)   the ability to change emotions quickly and accurately
D)   the ability to use information about emotions to guide your thinking and behavior

Question 3

Describe the various types of attributions people use to make inferences about the behaviors of others. Do attributions vary by age?

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Causal attributions are explanations of ...

Question 4

Blanchard-Fields and colleagues found that when participants were presented with different situations with positive or negative outcomes (events that were ambiguous as to what was the specific cause of the outcome) , older adults were more likely to make __________ about the main character.

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A)   situational attributions
B)   causal attributions
C)   interactive attributions
D)   dispositional attributions

Question 5

The results of Adams and colleagues' study of adults' storytelling illustrate the importance of considering

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A)   social context when examining age-related performance.
B)   processing demands when examining age-related performance.
C)   causal attributions when examining age-related performance.
D)   gender when examining age-related performance.

Question 6

Older adults make impressions influenced by __________ information they receive; younger adults make impressions based on the most ______________information they have.

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A)   emotional; logical
B)   all the; recent
C)   negative; positive
D)   positive; consistent

Question 7

Which theory argues that confronting a negative stereotype results in a rejection of that view in favor of a more positive self-perception?

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A)   perceived competence theory
B)   stereotype threat theory
C)   labeling theory
D)   resilience theory

Question 8

What is the age-based double standard of perceived competence in young and older adults?

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In a classic series of studies, Joan Erb...

Question 9

When people develop explanations of behavior, this is known as a

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A)   situational attribution.
B)   causal attribution.
C)   causation.
D)   dispositional attribution.

Question 10

Violet has misplaced the keys to her downtown residence (which rarely happens) , but her granddaughter is worried that something might be wrong with her, even though her granddaughter has done the same thing three times this week. The above is an example of

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A)   an age-based double standard.
B)   an age-based stereotype.
C)   the beginning signs of Alzheimer's disease.
D)   senility.

Question 11

Which theory argues that when confronted with age-related stereotypes, older adults are likely to incorporate these into their self-perceptions?

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A)   perceived competence theory
B)   stereotype threat theory
C)   labeling theory
D)   resilience theory

Question 12

When older adults take their time to form social judgments, they process information similarly to younger adults. But what happens when older adults have to make social judgments and are given a time limit?

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A)   They make better, more informed decisions than younger adults.
B)   They have difficulty remembering the information they need to make their social judgments.
C)   They become confused.
D)   They show a positivity bias.

Question 13

The research on married couples and collaborative cognition by Dixon (2011)  illustrates

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A)   older couples perform better than singles but not as well as young married couples.
B)   older couples perform worse than younger couples.
C)   older couples perform as well as younger couples.
D)   older couples perform as well as younger singles.

Question 14

Believing that aging is ___________ and pretty much ______________ results in decrements in cognitive performance.

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A)   the enemy; a challenge to resist
B)   inevitable; all decline
C)   a social construct; part of one's imagination
D)   a path to wisdom; a challenge to face bravely

Question 15

The SAVI model is based on the normative aging process in which psychological vulnerabilities that occur with increasing age makes regulating high levels of

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A)   cognitive processing slower.
B)   emotional arousal harder.
C)   emotional arousal easier.
D)   cognitive processing faster.

Question 16

When older adults were asked to learn a story so they could retell it later to a group of young children, their stories

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A)   were less detailed than younger adults.
B)   were similar to that of younger adults.
C)   contained a number of errors.
D)   were more detailed than younger adults.

Question 17

Images of older adults as slow, forgetful, and easily confused are based on

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A)   negative stereotypes.
B)   negative attributions.
C)   negative correlations.
D)   biased research findings.

Question 18

What is collaborative cognition?

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Collaborative cognition is at work when ...

Question 19

On Henry's 90th birthday he received a flat screen digital TV from his grandson that included a programmable remote. Henry decided that he could not program the remote for the new TV and chose to watch his old tube TV instead. According to Heckhausen, Wrosch, and Schulz, this is an example of

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A)   primary control.
B)   secondary control.
C)   possible selves.
D)   problem-focused coping mechanisms.

Question 20

Given the research, the most apt conclusion to draw regarding personal control is that

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A)   personal control increases with age.
B)   personal control decreases with age.
C)   personal control is multidimensional and complex.
D)   personal control is highly stable across domains.

Exam 8: Social Cognition

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What is the age-based double standard of perceived competence in young and older adults?

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When people develop explanations of behavior, this is known as a

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