The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
What is social psychology?
100
The belief that others are paying more attention to one’s appearance and behavior than they actually are is referred to as
What is the spotlight effect?
100
According to Brown (1987), in general, who is more likely to initiate intimacy?
What is the male?
100
As part of therapy, a clinical psychologist encourages her patients to install a punching bag in their homes to release hostility. The therapist apparently believes in
What is the catharsis hypothesis?
100
In Snyder and Haugen’s research on obesity and social status (1994; 1995), male students were shown a picture of a normal or obese woman before having a conversation with a female student. In this study, the dependent variable was
What is the man's response to the woman?
200
Another name for the "I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon".
What is hindsight bias?
200
Activating particular associations in memory.
What is priming?
200
What percentage of nurses in Hofling et al.’s (1966) study administered an obvious drug overdose when it was called in by an unknown physician?
What is 95%?
200
Our tendency to like things associated with ourselves.
What is implicit egotism?
200
Everyone does it! is a reflection of
What is the false consensus effect?
300
Standing in the campus courtyard with a clipboard to record your observations of university students’ usage of cellular phones is an example of what type of research?
What is field research?
300
The process of judging something by intuitively comparing it to our mental representation of a category
What is representativeness heuristic?
300
We are more likely to be persuaded by what type of persuasion when we are distracted or busy?
What is the peripheral route to persuasion?
300
Before an individual can decide to intervene in an emergency, she must take several preliminary steps.
What is she must NOTICE the event, must then INTERPRET it as an emergency, and she must decide that it is her personal RESPONSIBILITY to act?
300
Those living _______ prefer more personal distance space than those living _______.
What is farther away from the equator; closer to the equator?
400
What was the independent variable in Boyatzis’ (1995) research study on the effects of television viewing on children?
What is poor academic performance?
400
The cognitive dissonance theory was formulated by
Who is Leon Festinger?
400
Students who join extracurricular groups on campus tend to find their attitudes regarding the groups’ purpose increase if they stay in the group. This is an example of
What is group polarization?
400
In the Prisoner’s Dilemma, if both prisoners confess, each will get a _______; if neither confesses, each will _______.
What is moderate sentence; light sentence?
400
Bob is high in social dominance. Which of the following majors is he LIKELY to choose in college?
What is business, law, or politics?
500
In Snyder and Haugen’s research on obesity and social status (1994; 1995), male students were shown a picture of a normal or obese woman before having a conversation with a female student. In this study, the dependent variable was the
What is the man's response to the woman?
500
The fact that 76 percent of Californians agreed to install a huge ugly sign in their front yard after first being approached with a small request two weeks earlier exemplifies the
What is the foot-in-the door phenomenon?
500
Professional athletes often perform better in front of a large crowd during a game than alone during practice.
What is social facilitation?
500
This technique involves having elementary school children form academically and racially diverse groups, with each member of the group becoming an expert in one area.