Exam 16: Social Thinking and Social Influence.

Dr.Mellos is conducting research regarding the norms concerning personal space.Dr.Mellos is interested in the field known as

When you and your friends are playing tennis, you consider yourself a very good tennis player.However, when you watch professional tennis players playing in a tournament, you consider yourself a poor to average tennis player.Thus, thinking of yourself as a good or poor tennis player depends entirely on

Since you have no objective standards for rating the difficulty of the psychology test you just took, you ask other students who also took the test whether they thought the test was "hard," which illustrates your use of __________.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of true spiritual leaders?

As we speak, if I move my chair from in front of your desk to the side, I am attempting to move from social distance to a closer _________ distance.

Roles that people do not choose for themselves, such as female or son, are called __________ roles.

In attribution theory, the unstated expectations that define appropriate behavior in various settings are known as​

You and your friend have a fight and say very hurtful "things" to each other.In judging your own behavior, you say to yourself, "I was justified in saying those things to her because she betrayed me." In judging how your friend acted during the fight, you say "She had no right to say those things to me.She is a liar and an ungrateful person." In your interpretation of your own behavior, you are the actor assigning a(n)__________ cause.

Mr.Perkins is surprised that his most valued employee was late getting to work.He wonders if the employee might have had car trouble or encountered a traffic jam.Mr.Perkins is attributing his employee's behavior to an

Pressures to behave in certain ways in particular social settings are called __________.

You chose your major because of all the opportunities available in the health field, while your roommate chose a degree in finance because he tends to be "greedy and money-hungry." In attributing cause to your behavior of choosing a major and that of your roommate, you have exhibited

Which of the following summarizes our evaluation of objects and predicts and directs our future actions?

Roger attempts to get his way no matter whether it hurts other people's feelings or not.He tends to choose and make decisions for his family members without considering what they would prefer.Roger's behavior would best be described as​

Roles attained voluntarily or by special effort, such as a police officer or an architect, are called __________ roles.

In Milgram's studies, which of the following circumstances listed resulted in the SMALLEST percentage of subjects obeying the orders of the authority?

In 2009, Psychologist Jerry Burger partially replicated Milgram's 1965 study and obtained

Roles contribute to the streamlining of everyday interactions because they

Attribution refers to the process of

Regarding group sanctions, which of the following statements is FALSE?

In an elevator, people space themselves equally around the three back walls.This type of behavior would be studied as part of