Exam 8: Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

Research on social roles suggests that:

Results of Stanley Milgram's study on obedience showed that:

What cultural differences have been found in regard to the fundamental attribution error?

Which of the following increased the likelihood that participants would disobey in Milgram's obedience study?

Describe the story of entrapment told by the 25 men who had served in the Greek military during the authoritarian regime that ended in 1974.

Based on the information about prejudice in your textbook, what is the most likely outcome of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples in the long run?

When people in Western countries try to find reasons for someone else's behaviour, they tend to:

What is cognitive dissonance? List one example of this state of psychological tension.

Dr. Petterson is conducting a study to confirm earlier research findings that people who believe in the just-world hypothesis are more likely to:

Which of the following increased the likelihood that participants would disobey in Milgram's obedience study?

Solomon Asch set up an experiment in which eight people were shown a 10-inch line, and they had to choose the line (from a group of three) that matched the original line in length. Through this experiment, Asch was studying:

Bystander apathy results from:

Cognitive dissonance is:

When we make situational attributions, we are identifying the cause of an action as something:

Attribution theory examines:

Which of the following is true about obedience?

Research suggests that you are more likely to:

What criticisms have been raised regarding Milgram's comparison of his study with the brutality of the Nazis during World War II?

Describe the two general types of attributions people use to explain the behaviour of themselves and others, and discuss key concepts in attribution theory, such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias, and the just-world hypothesis.