Exam 14: Social Psychology

Recent research examining the obedience effect noted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s has found that, overall, disobedience seems to have _____ since the original study was published.

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 ________.

Hillary is not impressed with her choices for student body president, but knows she should vote in the election. In her opinion, Juan is not qualified for the position, but neither is Mark. She trusts Mark and admires his decision-making ability over Juan's. In fact, she likes Mark so much she volunteered for his campaign one afternoon. Volunteering for the campaign represents the ________ component of her attitude toward him.

According to Heider, we simultaneously attribute behavior to both internal and external causes.

Frustration may be a major source of prejudice.

The scientific study of the way in which thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of one individual are affected by the real, imagined, or inferred characteristics or behavior of others is known as ________ psychology.

Arthur was moved by the pain of families he saw on television who experienced the hurricane that destroyed their homes. He decided to donate $1,000 to hurricane relief. Arthur's actions are an example of _____ behavior.

Hillary is not impressed with her choices for student body president, but knows she should vote in the election. In her opinion, Juan is not qualified for the position, but neither is Mark. She trusts Mark and admires his decision-making ability over Juan's. In fact, she likes Mark so much she volunteered for his campaign one afternoon. Her trust of Mark's decision-making represents the ________ component of her attitude toward him.

________ occurs when people respond as anonymous parts of a larger group.

Heider argued within his theory, that we will attribute behavior to ________.

Research indicates that a teachers' expectations of students ________.

Compliance is a change in behavior in response to the explicit request of someone else.

A shared idea or expectation of how one should behave in various situations is called a ________.

The term psychologists use to describe how close two people live to each other is ________.

Harlow recently agreed to be a scout leader for her daughter's group. When she agreed, she was told the group met twice a month. However, she was not told that there were additional meetings of the organization in the off weeks amongst the troop leaders, as well as mandatory camping excursions. Harlow has been a victim of the ________ procedure.

As the opening to the chapter discussed, Sher Singh lived an example of the creation of a(n) _____, as his beard and turban became a symbol of Middle Eastern terrorism after September 11^th, 2001, although his religion and belief system were not in alignment with the terrorists.

Dani gradually shares more about her life with J.P. as they continue to date. She tells him how she enjoys her cats, and likes to watch movies. J.P. tells her he also enjoys those things, and that he wants to be a sculptor when he graduates. Dani and J.P. are increasing intimacy through _______.

When the expectations of one person bring about the expected behavior in another person, the expectation has become a(n) ________.

The degree to which other people behave the same way as one person behaves in a situation affects our attributions of that person's behavior. This is an example of ________.

Which of the following best expresses cognitive dissonance?