What Is the Social Status Effect

question 46

Multiple Choice

What is the social status effect?

• A)It is the tendency to perceive others who are like ourselves more positively than we perceive people who are different.
• B)It is the tendency to focus attention on individuals who are conspicuously different from us.
• C)It is the tendency to perceive individuals with a higher position in the social hierarchy more positively than we perceive those with a lower position in the social hierarchy.
• D)It is the tendency to perceive individuals with disabilities as noncontributors to society.
• E)It is the tendency for individuals to see themselves more positively than others around them.

Understand the physiological response of the body to stress and its hormonal regulation.

Recognize the role and effects of hormones secreted by the endocrine glands.

Explain the significance of the hypothalamus in hormone regulation and production.

Describe the process and importance of hormone regulation mechanisms in the human body.

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Definitions:

Rescorla-Wagner Model

A model of classical conditioning that proposes that learning is determined by the extent to which a unconditioned stimulus is unexpected or surprising.

Conditioned Strength

The extent to which a conditioned stimulus can elicit a strong and reliable conditioned response after associative learning has occurred.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any need for learning.

CS Preexposure Effect

The phenomenon where prior exposure to a conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus can inhibit the formation of a conditioned response when both are later paired.