Exam 8: Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

The_______________ is a controversial method for measuring prejudice, which pairs positive and negative words with black or white faces and then measures the participant's reaction time.

Which of the following is a situation that increases the likelihood someone will act altruistically?

Resistance to groupthink can be fostered by:

Donald enters an elevator and stands in it, facing the back instead of turning around to face the elevator door. Donald is violating:

Which of the following is the most common explanation of bystander apathy?

In the Milgram study, under which of the following conditions were the participants (teachers) most likely to disobey orders from experimenters?

What important positive role do stereotypes play in human thinking?

According to C. P. Snow, "more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of ________ than in the name of rebellion."

The mayor in your city has been dealing with a clash between downtown business owners and the homeless. Business owners are constantly calling the police about loitering and homeless people often vandalize "unfriendly" businesses. The mayor decides to set up a program where business owners and the homeless have a luncheon at the park together and each business owner is matched to a homeless person who they "sponsor" for the year, providing food and clean clothes throughout the year. The program is a huge success and the conflicts between the groups end within a year. The success can be explained by:

Adora, Yvette, and twelve of their closest friends from college plan to go to Key West during reading week. As members of the anonymous crowd of college students, Adora and Yvette will most likely:

One common form of oversimplification is argument by anecdote. Anecdotes are often a source of stereotyping as well. Explain how an anecdote might be a source of stereotyping. Illustrate your explanation with an example that could show how a stereotype could develop.

Angela is a participant in a replication of a very famous psychology experiment. Along with seven other students seated in a room, she is shown a 10-inch test line, and then everyone takes turns identifying another line that matches the test line in length (choosing from a set of three lines). The experimenter is interested in studying:

Solomon Asch, in his experiments testing conformity, wanted to know what people would do when a group unanimously contradicted an obvious fact. What was found in Asch's studies and in the many replications of his work?

In the Stanford prison study, male college students agreed to participate in a two-week experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners and guards. The researchers found that:

A psychological cause of prejudice is that it:

Critics of the Stanford prison study argue that:

When people are in large crowds and anonymous situations:

Lucas walks around his busy university campus between classes. He notices smoke coming from the side of the cafeteria, but assumes that someone inside already has called the fire department. What phenomenon does this example illustrate?

The philosopher Hannah Arendt, when covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann, used the phrase "the banality of evil" to explain how so many people in Nazi Germany supervised the deportation and death of millions of Jews. What does this phrase mean?

What is an attitude? Give an example of an attitude that would be considered explicit and one that would be considered implicit.