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Obedience
Attribution Theory
Attitudes
Persuasion
Miscellaneous
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I am the controversial psychologist who led participants to believe they shocked people in the name of science.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
100
As you are driving to your friend's house to study for your PSYC 102 test, someone pulls in front of you and cuts you off. You honk your horn at them and yell "You are a terrible driver!" This is an example of this type of attribution.
What is internal/dispositional attribution?
100
Your beliefs about people, groups, ideas, or activities.
What are attitudes?
100
You tell your mom how much you love her and what a great mom she is before you ask for money.
What is ingratiation?
100
This type of research examines a relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation?
200
Starting out with reasonable requests and gradually increasing the unreasonableness of the order is one reason why people obey.
What is entrapment?
200
When you do well on a test, you think to yourself, "I'm so smart!" but when you don't do so well on a test you blame the teacher for making the test too hard. This is an example of this type of attribution bias.
What is the self-serving bias?
200
Preferring your own TA to a substitute is an example of this effect.
What is the familiarity effect?
200
You want to go out to a party with friends and ask your parents if you can stay out until 4 AM. When they say no, you say, "How about midnight?" and they say yes. This is an example of this persuasion technique.
What is Door-in-the-Face?
200
Denial, repression, projection, and displacement are examples of these.
What are defense mechanisms?
300
Obeying a police officer because of his uniform and badge is an example of this reason why people obey.
What is respect for authority?
300
Underestimating situational factors is characteristic of this attribution error.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
300
Your friend frequently tells you how much she hates Taylor Swift's new music. The next time you hear "Look What You Made Me Do" on the radio, you think about how bad it is and change the station. This is an example of this this effect.
What is the validity effect?
300
You walk into a car dealership just to look around. A car salesperson first asks you if you would like to hear about the sale on Chevy's. Then asks if you would like to test drive one. Then he gives you deal on an expensive car. You end up buying the car.
What is Foot-in-the-Door?
300
During this stage of cognitive development, children understand conservation concepts and can think logically.
What is Concrete Operations stage?
400
This terrible international event inspired Stanley Milgram to conduct his obedience study.
What is the Holocaust?
400
Believing that poor people deserve to be poor because they are lazy and don't bother getting a job is an example of this attribution bias.
What is the just world hypothesis?
400
This uncomfortable feeling occurs when your behavior does not align with your attitudes.
What is cognitive dissonance?
400
A fundraiser group calls and asks if you would like to donate $100 to their cause. You refuse because you are a poor college student and $100 is too much money. Then they say, "How about $10?" This seems reasonable so you donate the $10.
What is Door-in-the-Face
400
This part of the brain serves as the sensory relay station.
What is the thalamus?
500
The Zimbardo prison experiment took place in the basement of the psychology building on this college campus.
What is Stanford University?
500
While shopping at Kroger, you overhear a father yelling at his young daughter. What is one dispositional attribution you could make? What is one situational attribution?
Dispositional: bad dad, mean, harsh Situational: he's having a bad day, he's stressed out, daughter was misbehaving
500
The ABCs of attitudes stand for these three components.
What is Affect, Behavior, Cognition?
500
When walking around a candy store, someone gives you a sample of chocolate. Later you buy three bars of the chocolate.
What is Foot-in-the-Door?
500
Little Albert being afraid of all white fluffy animals after being classically conditioned to be afraid of a white rat is an example of this learning concept.
What is stimulus generalization?