Exam 14: Social Psychology

Reciprocity refers to opposites attracting.

When pairs of participants played a competitive game, and researchers told one member of each pair that the other was either hostile or friendly, the players who were led to believe that their partner was hostile behaved ________.

Which of the following would result in cognitive dissonance?

Expanding our schema of a particular group, such as by viewing people from different races or genders as sharing similar qualities, is a strategy called ________.

The tendency of individuals to become more extreme in their attitudes as a result of group discussion is known as ________.

Identify the three major components of attitudes. Also, summarize research findings on the relationship between attitudes and behavior on the development of attitudes.

The likelihood that a person will help someone else in trouble ________ as the number of bystanders present increases.

Prejudice and discrimination are basically the same.

Roberta is shy, but she falls in love with Sven, who is very outgoing. This illustrates the effect of ________.

Physically attractive people are thought to be better spouses than physically unattractive people.

It is possible to change someone's behavior long before you change his or her attitude about that behavior.

Define altruism and discuss the factors that tend to increase or inhibit the occurrence of altruistic behavior.

The mass media have little impact on attitude formation.

The tendency of a group to take a more daring course of action than its members would take individually is called groupthink.

Contact between members of two groups can work to undermine prejudicial attitudes if each of the following conditions are met except ________.

People are most likely to obey orders ________.

We are most likely to change our negative attitudes toward a certain make of automobile if ________.

Tom rationalizes that his illicit use of marijuana is permissible because the drug is not particularly habit-forming and therefore should not be prohibited by law. Tom's rationalization serves to ________.

Prejudice and discrimination directed at a particular racial group is called ________.

Altruistic behavior is most likely to occur if ________.