CONFIRMITY
Real or Imagined
The ways in which people are affected by the real or imagined presence of others is called
a. social influence.
b. psychological reactance.
c. pluralistic ignorance.
d. the auto kinetic effect.
Groups?
A group is defined as
Human need
Baumeister and Leary (1996) suggest that humans have a fundamental drive to have at least a minimum number of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships with others. They refer to this as the ...?
Aggressor
The defining characteristic of aggression is that the aggressor ...
Forms of Social Influence
What are considered the three forms of social influence discussed in this chapter?
People in the same place
Three people in the same place at the same time who are working on a common activity but not interacting with one another... what is this called?
Strong desire
Rita has a strong desire to establish and maintain social contact with others. Rita has ...?
Negative
A negative, antagonistic attitude toward another person or group is called?
Mimic
The tendency to unconsciously mimic the nonverbal behavior of others is called
A leader
A leader who focuses his or her group on the task(s) it needs to achieve is best described as playing a(n) ____ role.
Feeling
A feeling of deprivation about existing social relations is called?
Emotional response
Whitley feels intensely displeased that Lena deliberately left the tuna fish sandwich sitting out in the sun so that Whitley would get food poisoning after she ate it. Whitley’s emotional response would best be described as?
Sheriff's study
What was the central focus of Muzzier Sheriff's (1936) study on conformity?
Zajonc's research
Research by Zajonc’s et al. (1969) in which cockroaches run in simple or complex mazes alone, in pairs, or with an audience provides support for which explanation of social facilitation?
Mere exposure
Which statement is consistent with the mere exposure effect?
a. The more that dating partners talk to each other, the more they realize how different they are.
b. Someone you see regularly just grows on you after a while.
c. A couple falls in love at first sight.
d. The old saying, “Birds of a feather flock together.”
An example?
Robbing a bank because you need money is an example of ____ aggression.
Influence
When does Normative influence tend to occur?
The model
According to the model of ____, when the presence of others is physiologically arousing, a person’s performance tends to ____ on a task that is difficult.
Anderson et al (1992)
Anderson and others (1992) found that heavy women are perceived as more attractive than slender women in countries where food is often in short supply. This finding is consistent with the idea that?
Evolutionary perspective
Finnegan notices his wife talking to another man and flies into a jealous rage. According to the evolutionary perspective, Finnegan’s behavior is designed to ?
Future aggression
When aggression stops an undesired outcome or prevents it altogether, the aggressive behavior will increase in the future through the process of?