Exam 13: A: Social Psychology

Quick impressions of people we meet tend to change after we have been around them for a longer period of time.

A child asks her parents to buy her a pony.While the parents refuse,they do agree to buy her a new bike when she asks a short time later.This is an example of the door-in-the-face technique.

Assuming that the driver who cut you off is a jerk,rather than rushing to the hospital to see his father,is an example of a fundamental attribution error.

Social norms are specific sets of behaviours that are associated with a position within a group.

Conformity is sometimes a conscious decision.

The identifiable victim effect describes how people are more likely to help those in their ingroup rather than their outgroup.

Pluralistic ignorance describes the reduced personal responsibility that a person feels when more people are present in a situation.

If an individual had a seizure in a public place,he would be more likely to get help if there were five people around,rather than only one person.

Unlike stereotypes based on negative characteristics,stereotypes based on positive characteristics are harmless.

In variations of Stanley Milgram's study on obedience,"teachers"were more likely to disobey and refuse to continue when they were in the presence of others who refused.