Exam 14: Social Psychology

In a now famous presidential debate from 1960,Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy appeared on nationwide television.The next day many people declared that Nixon had lost the debate,and commented on his sickly and disheveled appearance.Their decision about who the winner of the debate was came via __________ route processing.

If you are driving along and you get a flat tire,in which of the following circumstances are you most likely to receive help?

Gender,age,race,and religion are examples of social categories.

Normative social influence appeals to the accuracy motive while informational social influence appeals to the acceptance motive.

Research into social __________ focuses on the underlying processes,such as attention and memory,which make social behavior possible.

The behavioral __________ confirmation is a phenomenon that enables a person to influence other people to act in accordance with his or her expectations.

If you move to a new city and immediately start cheering for the local baseball and football teams just because the "locals" do,you are experiencing the accuracy motive.

The lowball,foot-in-the-door,door-in-the-face,and bait-and-switch techniques are all strategies that are used to gain compliance from another individual.

The __________ attribution error is a phenomenon in which people make an attribution based on character,even when they know that the behavior is situational.

Which of the following techniques is discussed in your textbook as a means of gaining another individual's compliance?

The ___________ effect is the tendency for people to behave in accordance with others' expectations.

As he sipped a $20 cocktail at the bar of a five-star restaurant,Jevon watched the television where a news story about a man who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for committing a crime was being covered.He thought to himself,"That guy sure deserved what he got.Why can't he be like me? If you're a good person and you play by the rules,you get rewarded.When you are a bad person,you get what you deserve!" Jevon is demonstrating the __________ hypothesis.

"If you all do well on the exam,I will let you skip one of the quizzes that I had planned for the rest of the semester," Professor Hollister tells his class.This sort of promise is an example of a(n)__________ motive,which gives a reward for acting in a certain way.

The __________ effect is a phenomenon that occurs when a person forgets the unreliable source of a piece of information but remembers the information itself.This leaves that individual with the impression that the information is,in fact,trustworthy and reliable even though it may not be.

Wendy is walking down the street when she suddenly falls down and lands squarely on her backside.A group of girls standing about 50 feet away start laughing hysterically,telling each other what a klutz that Wendy is.The unsympathetic girls in this group are making a(n)__________ attribution to explain why Wendy fell down.

Which of the following tasks was the main purpose of the seminal obedience experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram?

Social __________ is a phenomenon that occurs when people believe that their individual efforts don't matter or that they are not personally responsible because they are only one member of a larger group,so they tend to put less effort into a task.

Laticia,David,Portia,and Joshua are all assigned to work together on a group project.While three of the group members all work hard to create an excellent piece of work,David seems to lag behind.He doesn't really do much,and only participates to the bare minimum of his ability.This is an example of __________.

Being part of a group can make us feel less restrained,which causes us to relinquish personal responsibility and give ourselves over to the group experience.This is the phenomenon of __________.

Self-conscious emotions refer to feelings that relate to thoughts about ourselves and our own actions' impact on others.