Social Psychology
After seeing a student fall asleep in class, Mia assumes he is lazy without considering he worked all night. This BEST demonstrates:
Fundamental attribution error
A teenager buys a product mainly because a famous celebrity promotes it. This BEST demonstrates:
Peripheral route persuasion
Students strongly support members of their own school team while criticizing rival schools. This BEST demonstrates:
In-group bias
Students working on a group project put in less effort than when they work alone. This BEST demonstrates:
Social loafing
A stressed college student begins sucking their thumb again during exams. Freud would describe this as:
Regression
Jordan blames his bad test grade on difficult questions, but says another student failed because they are careless. This BEST demonstrates:
Actor-observer bias
Emma knows smoking is unhealthy but continues smoking, so she tells herself “it helps me relax anyway.” This BEST demonstrates:
Cognitive dissonance
A teenager begins dressing like their friend group to fit in socially. This BEST demonstrates:
Conformity
A committee ignores obvious problems with a plan because everyone wants to avoid disagreement. This BEST demonstrates:
Groupthink
A person who is organized, dependable, and careful would likely score high in:
Conscientiousness
After winning a soccer game, Ava says it happened because of her talent. After losing the next game, she blames the referee. This BEST demonstrates:
Self-serving bias
A charity first asks people to sign a petition, then later asks them to donate money. This BEST demonstrates:
Foot-in-the-door technique
A student laughs at a joke they do not find funny because everyone else is laughing. This BEST demonstrates:
Normative social influence
During a riot, people act more aggressively because they feel anonymous in the crowd. This BEST demonstrates:
Deindividuation
A basketball player strongly believes they can improve through practice and succeed in games. This BEST demonstrates:
Self-efficacy
After hearing a new song many times on social media, Liam begins to like it more. This BEST demonstrates:
Mere exposure effect
A student assumes all athletes are poor students. This belief is BEST described as:
Stereotype
During a fire alarm, students look at others to decide whether the alarm is serious. This BEST demonstrates:
Informational social influence
A person cannot remember a traumatic childhood event because it has been pushed into the unconscious mind. According to Freud, this is:
Repression
A student performs best on exams when they feel moderately stressed, but too much anxiety lowers performance. This BEST supports:
Yerkes-Dodson law
A student changes their opinion about school uniforms after hearing strong evidence and statistics during a debate. This BEST represents:
Central route persuasion
A manager refuses to hire someone because of their ethnicity. This behavior BEST represents:
Discrimination
A person collapses in a crowded mall, but nobody immediately helps because everyone assumes someone else will. This BEST demonstrates:
Bystander effect
Someone who is angry at a friend accuses the friend of being hostile instead. This BEST demonstrates:
Projection
After forcing herself to smile for several minutes, Maya begins feeling happier. This BEST supports:
Facial feedback hypothesis