Exam 14: Social Psychology

Compliance is a change in behavior in response to the specific command of someone else.

Using superordinate categories to reduce stereotyping and prejudice is an example of ________.

An example of deindividuation is mob behavior.

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

Brian is taught to understand the values of the Japanese by explaining to others the reasons behind some of their customs and practices. This technique of helping Brian to learn and respect a different culture is known as a ________.

Which of the following people are likely to stand closest to each other in face-to-face interactions?

It would be most difficult to produce change in attitude in an audience that is composed of ________.

A review of 45 studies on gender and leadership found that the styles of leadership adopted by women are generally ________ traditional male leadership.

The disastrous decisions made in such historical events as the Watergate cover-up, the Challenger disaster, and the Bay of Pigs invasion were primarily due to ________.

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

Many of our most basic attitudes ________.

A set of characteristics believed to be shared by all members of a social category is a ________.

Many altruistic acts are directed at strangers and are made anonymously.

Getting a person to comply with a small request in order to later attempt to get them to comply with a larger request is called lowballing.

Prejudice and discrimination always occur together.

A special kind of schema based on almost any distinguishing personal attribute is a ________.

A relatively stable organization of beliefs, feelings, and behavior tendencies toward something or someone else is a(n) ________.

According to the great-person theory, social and economic factors largely determine who will rise to leadership at a given place and time.

A cultural assimilator teaches by ________.

The belief that members of certain racial or ethnic groups are innately inferior is ________.