Attribution, Attitudes and Actions
George was late for his early morning class. The teacher believed that the reason for George’s tardiness was simply laziness. In fact, George was late because a serious automobile accident prevented him from arriving to campus on time. Which of the following social psychology principles most accurately describes the teacher’s assumption?
Fundamental Attribution Error
Because the most popular students in the high school tend to wear a particular brand of athletic shoe, a new student buys a pair of shoes of the same brand. Such behavior demonstrates which of the following social psychological concepts?
Conformity
For a small group assignment, Tina doesn't prepare her part and relies on the others to compensate for her lack of contribution. What does Tina display?
Social Loafing
John recently graduated with his law degree and began working for a local law firm. He enjoyed the opportunity to work with the cohort of new lawyers who were hired at the same time. Before long, he began socializing with his new friends and joined them in ridiculing the older lawyers. Which of the following accurately describes the behavior of the group of new lawyers?
They are an in-group engaged in prejudice.
John and Kevin were frustrated that their team lost and, during the riot, took out their anger by participating. They purposely meant harm to the winning teams' fans by displaying the
Frustration-aggression principle
Doug is part of a large creative-design team at an advertising firm. The team comes up with many slogans for products. Some are successful; some are failures. Whenever the team comes up with a winner, Doug takes full responsibility and talks about how much of a role he played in the team’s success. When slogans are not effective, he denies having a big role in the project. Doug is most clearly demonstrating
A self-serving bias
Which ethical concept is most directly relevant to Solomon Asch’s study on conformity, and why?
Deception, because Asch had to deceive his participants about the true nature of the study in order to test conformity.
What level of arousal do people perform the best according to Yerkes-Dodson?
A moderate level of arousal
Ms. Burrell gives boys lower grades than girls for similar work.
Discrimination
George sat next to Kiki in biology class every day. They often worked together on assignments. By the end of the semester, George became quite fond of Kiki. Which social psychological term best explains George’s attraction to Kiki?
Mere-exposure effect
People were asked to sign a petition in support of a political candidate. Later, those who signed the petition were asked to donate money to the candidate, and many of them did. This phenomenon is best characterized as
The foot-in-the-door technique
Which of the following best states a conclusion of Stanley Milgram's study of obedience?
(A) When faced with a difficult decision, people are more likely to follow the opinions of the crowd than diverge from those opinions.
(B) When challenged to commit a crime, people will most often refuse if they are not coerced, but will agree if an authority figure coerces them.
(C) When asked to inflict pain on others, people are likely to inflict mild amounts of pain without remorse.
(D) When asked to participate in a study, people are more likely to agree if they are offered some sort of compensation.
(E) When an authority figure is present, people are more likely to obey orders than to question the wisdom of the orders.
E)
Alice paints her face with her favorite soccer team’s colors and gets into a fight with some fans of a rival team at the game, even though she is normally shy and meek. This is
Deindividuation
When watching the Olympics, most people cheer for athletes from their own country. Often, fans believe that athletes from other countries cheat but athletes from their own country would never cheat. This is an example of what psychological concept?
In-group bias
Which of the following social psychology terms helps us understand why we are more likely to be attracted to someone who has similar interests as us, cares about what we care about, and who helps us achieve our goals?
Reward Theory of Attraction
Ray is writing a paper emphasizing all of the flaws with critical race theory without exploring any counterarguments or alternative opinions. Which cognitive bias may be impacting the impartiality and objectivity of Ray's research and work?
Confirmation bias
A person may feel pressured to smoke because the rest of their friends are.
Normative Social Influence
Emma performs better in lacrosse when she is in front of a crowd. This is because of
Social facilitation
Amari is an American, and she believes that Americans are a very diverse group of people in terms of race, ethnicity, food, religion, language, dress, political and social beliefs, socioeconomic status, etc. At the same time, Amari believes that all people from Mexico have brown skin, black hair, are Catholic, and speak Spanish. Which social psychology term describes Amari's thinking here?
Out-group homogeneity
John and Lucy both love to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm which attracts each other. This is __ which is a factor of attraction.
Similarity
A person may, for instance, believe that healthcare should be a universal right and expect that almost everyone really feels that way, and be surprised to find he or she is in the minority according to a poll. This is an instance of
False consensus effect
One may notice crossing one's arms while talking with someone else who has his or her arms crossed. This is because of the
Chameleon effect
To talk about homecoming dinner, my friends Taelor, Evan, Amanda, and I all got together to discuss where to go; after talking we all decided that we really wanted to eat Italian food.
Group polarization
Jack's former friend suggests that Jack must have done something terrible to have deserved his misfortunes. What phenomenon does this display?
Just-World Phenomenon
Even though he is not aware of it, Benjamin is attracted to Alawa because she has signs of reproductive viability. This comes from
Evolutionary perspective