Exam 10: Social Psychology

Louise has been practising a new piano piece for a couple of weeks. She performs it with a few mistakes when she is practising alone, but when she attempts to perform it for her friends, she makes numerous mistakes. Her performance in front of friends might be attributed to

What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?

Jeff thinks older workers are slow and less reliable. As section manager in the factory, he gives Gus (a man in his early 60s) all the routine, less important, and boring jobs. Gus resents the work assignments he is given and has little motivation to get things done quickly or very well. Jeff sees Gus's slow work habits and tells his friends that Gus proves his belief about older workers is correct. Jeff has engaged in a

The student radical group OUR-ED, known for noisy sit-in demonstrations, held a meeting last week. Before the meeting began, as people gathered and talked, many individual members suggested that stronger actions had to be taken to increase funding to schools. The entire meeting was devoted to this topic. As a result of the meeting we could expect

Appeals based on fear are most effective when the presentation outlines definite actions the audience can take to avoid the feared outcome.

How do the kinds of attributions we tend to make about ourselves differ from those we make about other people?

Fernando really wanted to join a popular campus fraternity, but the initiation he underwent was especially gruelling and severe. According to cognitive dissonance theory, Fernando will probably

To get subjects to continue increasing the level of shock in the Milgram study, the experimenters

How did Asch explore the idea of conformity, and what did he find?

Of the following factors, which is generally not important in determining whether someone will conform?

Which of the following is an example of the mere-exposure effect?

Research suggests that basically men prefer to mate with attractive females and females prefer to mate with attractive men.

What are some strategies for reducing prejudice and discrimination?

List and explain four factors involved in interpersonal attraction.

You are helping high school students who are candidates for student government. Give these students three effective principles for persuading others to vote for them and techniques you could use in conducting the campaign (e.g., the foot-in-the-door technique, the door-in-the-face technique, etc.).

Stanley Milgram's study of obedience demonstrated that people will obey authority to an unreasonable extreme, even hurting someone.

According to social learning theory, what causes aggressive behaviour?

Of the following choices, the best definition of aggression is

Taking personal credit for our successes and blaming our failures on external or situational causes describes the

How important is physical attractiveness in attraction?