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What would a social psychologist be most likely to study?
Personal attitudes and the perception of others
Which of the following are situational causes of behavior?
You trip and fall because the curb is uneven and not marked well, you did well on a test because the test was easy
When someone says we are intelligent and attractive,
we are more likely to like them due to the reciprocity-of-liking effect
____ can be positive or negative, and grow out of our tendency to categorize and organize information we encounter in our every day lives.
Stereotypes
____ is a change in behavior in response to the commands of others.
Obedience
The central question in making an attribution is whether the cause of behavior is due to ___ or ___ factors.
situational; dispositional
What is the definition of an attitude?
An evaluation of a person, behavior, or concept
What is the process by which an individual organizes information about another person to form an overall idea of that person?
impression formation
___ is behavior that occurs in response to direct social pressure.
Compliance
____ are sets of cognitions about people and social experiences.
schemas
Prejudice is:
A negative evaluation of an individual based on his or her group membership
Social psychologists typically refer to helping others as ____ behavior.
prosocial
Which of the following are dispositional causes of behavior?
You trip and fall because you are clumsy, you did well on test because you studied very hard
___ is a change in behavior or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of other people.
Conformity
What social psychological concept is Stanley Milgram most associated with?
Obedience
___ is a type of thinking in which group members share such a strong motivation to achieve consensus that they lose the ability to critically evaluate alternate points of view.
Groupthink
___ is a social rank held within a group.
Status
What do social psychologists call positive feelings or others, such as liking or loving?
interpersonal attraction
___ is helping behavior that is beneficial to others but clearly requires self-sacrifice.
altruism
What is the term for the intentional injury of, or harm to, another person?
aggression
What is the term for a cause of behavior that is brought about by a person's internal traits or personality characteristics?
Dispositional cause
Need for ____ is a person's habitual level of thoughtfulness and cognitive activity.
cognition
Which of the following affect the ease with which we change our attitudes?
The source of the message, the characteristics of the target and of the message
What is the term for the conflict that occurs when a person holds two contradictory attitudes?
cognitive dissonance
Fundamental Attribution Error is:
the tendency to over attribute others' behavior to dispositional factors
Using group membership as a source of pride and self-worth explains prejudice and discrimination through
social identity theory
Which of the following are ways to reduce cognitive dissonance?
modify one or both cognitions, change the perceived importance of one cognition, deny that the two cognitions are related to one another
List the steps in determining why people behave the way they do.
Noticing an event, interpreting the event, forming an initial explanation, determining if time or cognitive resources are available, formulate and resolve the problem, determining if the explanation is satisfactory
The presence of a(n) ___ trait, a certain unusually important trait, can alter the meaning of other traits.
central
Peripheral route processing occurs when
people are persuaded on the basis of factors unrelated to the nature or quality of the content of a persuasive message
The ___ may be explained by the fact that, when making attributions about someone, the immediate environment is more stable and less attention grabbing than the observed person's behavior.
fundamental attribution error
How did Solomon Asch test his hypotheses regarding conformity?
By presenting a group of people with a series of lines and asking which was the longest
___ route processing occurs when the recipient thoughtfully considers the issues and arguments involved in persuasion.
Central
___ theory seeks to explain how we decide, on the basis of samples of an individual's behavior, what the specific causes of that person's behavior are.
Attribution
___ neuroscience seeks to identify the neural basis of social behavior and looks at how we can illuminate our understanding of groups, interpersonal relations, and emotions by understanding their cognitive underpinnings.
Social
___ learning theory of aggression is well supported by psychological research.
observational
If people think that members of a specific group lack ambition, they may treat them in a way that actually brings about a lack of ambition. This illustrates
self-fulfilling prophecy
___ is the process of discharging built-up aggressive energy.
Catharsis
In Milgram's classic obedience study, what percent of participants eventually used the highest setting on the shock generator - 450 volts - to shock the learner?
65%
We ___ the positive aspects of our ungroup, and at the same time ___ out groups.
inflate; devalue
What concept of social psychology is at work if someone is robbed in the middle of an intersection but nobody calls the police or offers assistance?
Diffusion of responsibility
The acronym IAT stands for ___ association test.
implicit
What is the name of the phenomenon in which an initial understanding that a person has positive traits is used to infer other uniformly positive characteristics?
Halo Effect
What psychologist is associate with research on aggression and catharsis?
Konrad Lorenz
Information-processing approaches have developed a ___ oriented model of how individual personality traits combine to create an overall impression.
mathematically
What is the name of the phenomenon in which we tend to think of people as being similar to ourselves, even when meeting them for the first time?
Assumed-similarity bias
If you ever receive a free sample, keep in mind that is comes with a psychological cost. Salespeople who provide samples to potential customers do so to instigate the norm of ____.
reciprocity
In which of the following situations is groupthink most likely to occur?
A powerful leader surrounded by people of lower status
If you ask a person to agree to a small request and later ask that person to comply with a more important one, you have used which complicate technique?
foot-in-the-door technique
What is the difference between complicate and conformity?
The social influence in conformity is subtle, whereas it's more direct in compliance
What type of love is the strong affection we have for those whom our lives are deeply involved?
companionate
Which of the following is an example of mere exposure?
Finding a person attractive because you bump into him or her frequently
What approach to understanding aggression proposes that aggression is primarily the outcome of innate - or inborn - urges?
instinct
A ___ ___ is a group member whose dissenting views make nonconformity to the group easier.
social supporter
The halo bias, self-serving bias, and assumed similarity are examples of biases in making ____.
attribution
Self Serving bias:
The tendency to attribute personal success to dispositional factors and failure to situational factors
What type of love is a state of intense absorption in someone that includes intense physiological arousal?
passionate
As we gain more experience with people our impressions of them become more ____.
complex
Milgram's experiment was criticized for
creating an unethical circumstance for the participants
The frustration-aggression theory suggests that ____ (the reaction to the thwarting or blocking of goals) produces anger, leading to a readiness to display ____.
frustration, aggression
What is the name of the phenomenon in which we tend to over attribute others' behavior to dispositional cues?
Fundamental attribution error
The ___ effect leads to misperceptions of others.
halo
What is the minimum number of people you need to agree with you to reduce the effect of conformity?
one
How are conformity and ambiguity of task/situation related?
The more ambiguous the task/situation, the greater the level of conformity
What type of consequences are most likely to increase aggressive behavior according to the observational learning theory?
Positive reinforcement such as getting what one wants
The fact that bigoted parents may commend their children for expressing prejudiced attitudes illustrates which approach to stereotypes and prejudice?
observational learning
Which of the following was the result of Festinger's classic experiment on cognitive dissonance?
More participants who were paid $1 changed their attitudes than did participants who were paid $20
Based on the findings of Kelley's classic experiment, who is likely to be perceived more positively?
A person described as warm and competent
Which branch of psychology is focused on the operation and design or organizations, asking questions such as how decision making can be improved in large organizations and how the fit between workers and their jobs can be maximized?
industrial-organizaitional
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Term Attitudes | Definition Evaluations of a particular person, behavior, belief, or concept. |
Term Fundamental attribution error | Definition A tendency to overattribute others' behavior to dispositional causes and the corresponding minimization of the importance of situational causes. |