Exam 12: Social Psychology

Katie feels as if her sorority is made up of many diverse and unique members.However, she feels like fraternities are composed of males who are all very similar to each other.Her bias is known as

Which of the following predictions would the kin selection hypothesis make?

Which of the following is an example of cognitive dissonance?

The foot-in-the-door compliance technique, in which people start by asking for a small request that is followed by a larger request, works through the principle of

Kate is prejudiced against minorities.Kate's new roommate is black, but Kate quickly discovers that her roommate is smart, funny, and empathetic.Kate feels anxious whenever she is with her roommate because Kate's prejudices conflict with her belief that her roommate is a good person.Kate is experiencing

In making attributions about the behavior of people around them, people from Western cultures tend to use factors and people from Eastern cultures tend to use factors.

Passionate love is associated with which brain structures?

Which of the following best describes the findings on gender and ingroup bias?

Imagine that you are asked to set up your best friend, Tina, on a blind date.Assuming you are using evolutionary theories of attraction, which potential partner would you pick for her?

In Milgram's obedience studies, about percent of the participants administered the maximum shock, and of them tried to quit the study.

Mandy believes all engineers are unimaginative.Working on the literary magazine, she meets Josiah, who is an engineering major and a writer of fascinating short stories.Mandy is likely to handle this contradiction by deciding that

Medical interns and residents are often required to work such long shifts that they are always exhausted and do not function optimally.Dissonance theory would suggest that a possible motivation for this policy is to

During the election, you volunteer to make phone calls on behalf of a local democratic candidate.You want to predict the voting behaviors of the people you call.What question should you ask them?

Negative feelings and opinions about someone due to the group he or she belongs to are referred to as

In terms of how they explain their partner's behavior, the happiest couples engage in positive illusions, which lead to

When are you likely to see the LEAST amount of prosocial helping?

Romantic conflict is predicted by

Song and Prakash are both taking a very difficult and quite boring class in symbolic logic.Song freely chose to take this class as an optional elective course.Prakash is taking the class because it is required for his major.When asked about the class, cognitive dissonance theory would predict that Song would say it is and Prakash would say it is .

If you find yourself in a situation where you need help, what can you do to overcome bystander apathy?

Modern racism is most likely to be demonstrated by