Packet 2: Bonus 17
This term was popularized by Elizabeth Perse and Rebecca Rubin in a paper analyzing the reciprocity felt by people watching performers on television. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this psychological term, which is also used to describe intimate but unequal relationships that fans develop with online personalities.
ANSWER: parasocial relationships [or parasociality; accept word forms; prompt on social]
[10m] Perse and Rubin’s study assessed this process in parasocial relationships with soap opera characters. In a 1967 study, this process was unchanged when subjects were told that newswriters’ positions were based on a coin flip.
ANSWER: attribution [accept the Fundamental Attribution Error]
[10h] Perse and Rubin’s tests drew on a theory of personality based on these frameworks created by George Kelly. Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Triad links depression to a negative one of these thought patterns named for the self.
ANSWER: schema [or schemata; or schematics; or self-schema; accept personal constructs]
<EC, Social Science> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 14.65 | 98% | 42% | 7% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Team 7 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Not Old! (Old) | Team 8 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |