Exam 10: Social Psychology

After Lawrence lost his job during a recent economic downturn, he was unsuccessful in several promising interviews. Each time, the job he wanted ultimately went to other candidates who were members of the same minority group. Now, Lawrence is expressing increasingly negative attitudes towards that minority group as a whole. Which theory does this behaviour best represent?

Geneva may be making the fundamental attribution error when she says that Pauline failed the test because

The three elements of persuasion are cognition, emotion, and behaviour.

All of the following are suggested as effective strategies for reducing prejudice, except

When does social facilitation help or hurt someone's task performance?

Maria agreed to sign a letter supporting an increase in taxes for road construction and later agreed to make 100 phone calls urging people to vote for the measure; this is an example of the

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

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

In the low-ball technique for compliance, people are given a free sample that makes many feel obligated to participate.

What kinds of aversive events and unpleasant emotions have been related to aggression?

One view of how prejudice arises and is sustained suggests that the thinking processes we use to simplify, categorize, and order our world are the same processes by which we distort it. This view is the

The frustration-aggression hypothesis says that all violent behaviour results when aggression leads to frustration.

The Robber's Cave experiment best demonstrated which model of prejudice?

About what percentage of abused children become abusive parents?

While our first impressions of an individual are important, but are quickly altered by the reality of how they behave.

Why do we overemphasize dispositional causes and underemphasize situational causes when we explain the behaviour of other people?

The matching hypothesis suggests

Describe the concept of stereotypes.

Stereotypes often arise from natural thinking processes that enable us to process social information more easily and efficiently.

Compare and contrast the factors involved in conformity and obedience, including the findings of the Asch and Milgram experiments.