Exam 14: Social Psychology

The tendency of people to place too much emphasis on personal factors when accounting for other people's actions and too little emphasis on personal factors when accounting for our own actions is known as the ________.

We are ________ likely to be attracted to and ________ likely to vote for a political candidate with whom we share similar attitudes.

A cultural assimilator teaches by ________.

A recent one-year study involving more than two thousand managers found that female and male coworkers say that women are ________.

Identify and define at least four factors that influence attraction to others.

Which of the following would result in cognitive dissonance?

Beliefs or values that most members of a society accept as self-evident are ________.

The tendency for an individual's helpfulness in an emergency to decrease as the number of onlookers increases is called ________.

An influential attribution theory was developed by ________.

Define and explain the differences between prejudice and discrimination. Identify at least three sources of prejudice and present methods through which prejudice can be reduced.

In one experiment, ________ percent of subjects who were alone responded to a taped "emergency" in the next room, and ________ percent of subjects responded who were in a room with a stranger who did nothing in response to the emergency.

Authoritarian personalities are more likely than others to be prejudiced.

The person who conducted the most well-known research on obedience is ________.

Barbie and Ken just moved into a housing development. They are most likely to be attracted to ________.

Which of the following personality types is most likely to be prejudiced?

Deindividuation partly explains ________.

Compliance is a change in behavior ________.

The tendency of groups to consistently propose a more daring course of action than that proposed by group members working alone is called ________.

In a mob, one dominant and persuasive individual can often convince people to act through the ________ effect.

A key factor in the phenomenon of groupthink is the cohesion of the group.