1.

Social cognition explains how we develop mental representations and how our mental
representations influence the way we process information about people and social events.

Ans: T

2. The image that the word fish brings to mind is part of a mental representation called a script.

Ans: F

3. We create a schema for people of a nationality by assigning a set of characteristics to a

particular national culture label.

Ans: T

4. Schemas are largely unconscious mental representations that shape how we think and act in a
given situation.

Ans: F

5. Norms can be more important predictors of behavior in collectivist than in individualist

cultures.

Ans: T

6. What is perceived and what is screened out are influenced by the characteristics of the
perceiver, the person (or object) being perceived, and the situation.

Ans: T

7. We are attracted to people whom we perceive to be similar to us because this validates our
view of the world.

Ans: T

8. Stereotypic expectations of a cultural group are a result of the natural cognitive process of
social categorization.

Ans: T

9. Stereotypic expectations of others tend to become self-perpetuating.

Ans: T

10. Social dominance theory suggests that within every complex society certain groups are
dominant over others and enjoy a disproportionate amount of privilege.
Ans: T
11. Scripts help us to understand and react to our environment by linking the observation of an
event to its causes.

Ans: F

12. We are more likely to attribute desirable behaviors by members of our in-group to internal
causes but more likely to attribute desirable behaviors of out-group members to transient external
causes.

Ans: T

13. The cognitive model of decision-making suggests that a decision-maker must have a clear
goal and a comprehensive set of alternatives from which to choose, which are themselves
weighted according to known criteria and preferences, and can choose the alternative that has the
highest score.

Ans: F

14. The amount of information that a person considers before making a final decision is culture
bound.

Ans: T

15. Individual judgment boundaries exist because decision-makers often must deal with
incomplete information about the problem, the decision criteria, and even their own preferences.

Ans: T

16. Consequential models focus on the outcomes or consequences of a decision to determine

whether the decision is ethical.

Ans: T

17. Utilitarian principles hold that human beings have certain fundamental rights and that a sense
of duty to uphold these rights is the basis of ethical decision-making rather than a concern for
consequences.

Ans: F

18. In cultural relativism, moral concepts are legitimate only to the extent that they reflect the
habits and attitudes of a given culture.

Ans: T