Exam 14: Social Psychology

Which of the following is not one of the three major components of attitudes?

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

Deidre tried to get her group of Native American students and Caucasian students to work better together, after noticing some subtle racism in the classroom. She divided them into groups that were tasked with helping to put together new toy sets for the classroom. She deliberately mixed some of the pieces for each toy set with the other group's pieces, so the groups would need to interact more in an organic fashion. Deidre then incentivized the students by telling them that whichever group finished first would get more recess time. Her attempt at improving group contact didn't work because she forgot that _______.

Asch found that the likelihood of conformity increased with group size until ________ confederates were present.

_______ experiments showed the effects of group pressure on the conformity of an individual.

Compliance with a command is called conformity.

Studies on similarity and attractiveness have found that ________.

We are most likely to help in an emergency ________.

Which of the following is not one of the kinds of information attribution theorist Harold Kelley believed we use to draw conclusions about the causes of behavior?

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

Prejudice involves attitudes, while discrimination involves behaviors.

Peter is very introverted and enjoys staying at home, but he falls in love with Sarah, who is very extroverted, and enjoys going out. They find they keep one another grounded. This example illustrates the concept of ________.

The application of brain imaging and other neuroscience methods to social psychology is referred to as social ________.

Describe the factors influencing group decision-making and the effectiveness of groups.

A hockey player exhibiting the self-serving bias who missed a penalty shot is most likely to attribute the missed goal to ________.

Behavior directed at helping others with no thought or expectation of personal gain is called ________ behavior.

Research has found that Japanese students studying in the United States usually attribute their successes to ________ sources and their failures to ________ sources.

Joe has never trusted doctors; however, after his heart attack, he finds himself dependent on them. Because Joe must trust doctors with his health, what will he probably do to reduce the dissonance between his feelings of mistrust for doctors and his realization that only they can help him now?

Since joining his biker group, Kris views himself as almost invincible. He now feels that individuals that are not a part of the group are losers, and not worth his time or effort. Kris is demonstrating _______.

Jim's son's homeroom teacher knows that he is a stay-at-home dad. She asks him to be the volunteer lunch monitor for the year, to which Jim refuses. She then asks if he might chaperone a trip to the state house. She is applying the ________ effect.