Exam 11: Social Psychology

When Ramon uses a self-serving bias, he is likely to believe that

People's subjective interpretations of other people as well as their own relationships is called their

When people of various races are playing on the same soccer team, they are involved in

Your best friend has been acting rather cool toward you lately. As you try to figure out why, you are engaging in the process called

At the college he attends, Marcus continually runs up against racial barriers and a sense that he is judged as being less valuable because he is Black. There seem to be rules and regulations at the college that favor White students (as well as Asian students) but that limit the leadership possibilities for Black students. These institutionalized barriers are an example of what social psychologists call

A key implication of Stanley Milgram's research is that

Based on the fMRI research of Naomi Eisenberger at UCLA, what might be an effective way to help your friend who is feeling very emotionally distraught after finding out that he was not invited to a party to which all of your other peers were invited?

Your friend took a security guard position to help defray the costs of tuition. When you stopped by to visit him on the job, you found he was acting differently. He was more serious and professional. Your friend was using ________ to guide his actions as a guard, which were likely learned from film or literature depictions of security guards.

Describe the four factors that underlie interpersonal attraction.

When there is a large group of bystanders, individuals are likely to experience

The Kitty Genovese case depicts

John is better friends with Michelle, who sits one seat next to him, than Janie, who sits four seats away from him, even though both Michelle and Janie were strangers when their semester began. John's attraction highlights the influence of the

Dave believes all college professors are irritable, impatient, and uninterested in whether students learn. His belief is an example of

Ralph, a White student who grew up in Maine, is about to enter the University of Southern California on an athletic scholarship. He is aware that many of his teammates will be Black and assumes that they will dislike him and ostracize him. Ralph's attitude is BEST described as an example of

Herbie and Irene have been married for almost 55 years. Through it all, they have remained committed to each other and have been as close as two people can be. Over the years the passion has waned but they still stayed together. Sternberg would call this type of love

Situation is to behavioral context as disposition is to

Describe Sternberg's triangular theory of love.

A social psychologist has been invited to give a community lecture on the importance of Milgram's research. He asks a social psychology class for suggested titles. Which of the following titles might they suggest as the most appropriate?

During the holocaust, propaganda was circulated in Germany that suggested that Jewish persons were more like animals than like people. This same strategy was employed in 1994 in Rwanda, Africa, when one group suggested that its opponents were cockroaches that had to be destroyed. This practice, called ________, is an important part of what allows the genocide of a population to occur.

The World-Will-End-on-June-7 group got together on June 7 to pray as the world ended. The next day the world did not end. The leader of the group said, "Our prayers saved the world." What process was responsible for the attitude change?