According to social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary, human beings have a fundamental psychological need to ________.
excel
belong
compete
achieveCorrect Ans:-belong
When surveyed, over 87% of America
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According to social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary, human beings have a fundamental psychological need to ________.
excel
belong
compete
achieveCorrect Ans:-belong
When surveyed, over 87% of Americans reported that they
preferred to spend significant periods of time without other people around.
were married or wanted to be married.
had a social media account.
lived with other people.Correct Ans:-lived with other people.
Paulette recently irritated some of the girls in a sorority at her college, so they have decided to exclude her from their group. The group of girls ignores Paulette-- shuns her-- and communicates that she is not welcome at their events. The group of sorority sisters is using ________ to communicate their displeasure with Paulette.
ostracism
reactance
affiliation
social facilitationCorrect Ans:-ostracism
The practices of excluding one or more individuals from a group by reducing or eliminating contract with that person, often by ignoring, shunning, or explicitly banishing them, is called ________.
marginalizing
prejudice
ostracism
peripheralizationCorrect Ans:-ostracism
Researchers have studied whether being left out of a group can cause the same neural responses as physical pain. Through fMRI studies, they found that two areas of the brain - the dorsal anterior cingulate and the ________ showed heightened activity when a person experienced social ostracism. This suggests that social pain can be as problematic as physical pain!
anterior insula
suprachiasmatic nucleus
substantia nigra
posterior putamenCorrect Ans:-anterior insula
What evidence supports the idea that social pain might be as devastating to a human being as physical pain?
Sleep studies find that brain activity during sleep changes if one experiences social ostracism within 2 or 3 hours of going to sleep.
fMRI imaging studies find similar brain areas activated by both experiences.
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