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Social Psychology
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People who exert less effort on a task when working in a group than they do when working individually are engaging in
What is social loafing?
100
Marco accepts a request to play the piano at his church’s Sunday services, even though he is still learning how to play the piano. He plays a well-learned, simple piece. Happily, he performs very well in front of his congregation. Marco’s behavior illustrates
What is social facilitation?
100
. Asch found that the likelihood of conformity increased with group size until ______ confederates were present
What is four?
100
Coming up with as many different uses of a brick as possible, such as using them for doorstops, is a type of ________ thinking.
What is divergent ?
100
A theory of intelligence with nine components was postulated by
Who is Gardner?
200
Behavior that is initiated or changed in response to a request, as opposed to a command or direct order, is an example of
What is compliance?
200
After agreeing to Nat’s request to share her lecture notes from one class, Maria now agrees to Nat’s request to share her notes from three classes. This example illustrates
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
200
A group of businessmen and women get together to try to solve the problem of decreased sales of their company’s products. One of them suggests that they generate as many ideas as they can in a short period of time without being critical of any of them. This technique of stimulating divergent thinking is called
What is brainstorming?
300
is used to describe compliance with an initial small request followed by compliance with a larger request
What is foot-in-the-door?
300
A person asks you if you would volunteer to counsel delinquent youths at a detention center for two years. When you refuse, she asks you if you could supervise the youths during a trip to the zoo. She is using
What is door-in-the-face technique?
300
. It is 1951, and you are required to participate in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is studying
What is conformity?
300
The concept of the confirmation bias specifically assumes that we are most likely to believe
What is information that agrees with our thinking?
300
three types of intelligence constitute Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
What are analytical, creative, and practical?
400
are mental categories representing activities, objects, qualities, or situations that share some common characteristics
What are concepts?
400
Gardner and his associates are known for proposing ______
What is the theory of multiple intelligence?
500
The term do psychologists use to describe our tendency to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it?
What is confirmation bias?
500
The ability to learn from one’s experiences, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges or problems is the psychologist’s working definition of
What is intelligence?
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