Exam 11: Psychology in Our Social Lives

An attitude is a(n):

An unpleasant state of psychological tension called ________ occurs when an individual holds two contradictory thoughts or attitudes.

Research has found that when people are in front of an audience their performance improves on

Which of the following statements is true regarding aggression

Which of the following defines intimacy

According to your text, scores on the Inclusion of Other in Self Scale (Aron et al., 1992) relate to people's satisfaction with their close relationships and the tendency for couples to stay together. These relationships affirm the scale's:

Dusty earned a PhD at a prestigious university. Despite her parents' help, Dusty credits her educational success to hardiness and resilience, but blames her inability to manage money on the culture of poverty in which she was raised. Dusty reflects an attributional bias known as the __________

Which alternative below correctly defines normative conformity

Some people are good at regulating their behavior to meet the demands of social situations. Which of the following statements is accurate with respect to such individuals

In an early rope-pulling experiment, Ringelmann (1913) found that groups of three men pulled at 85% of their expected capability, whereas groups of eight men pulled at 37% of their expected capability. Which of the following hypotheses is most immediately suggested by these results

Prejudice is as an evaluation of other people based on their group. Thus, prejudice is best seen as a type of:

The evidence for a link between media violence and aggressive behavior is only correlational.

People tend to overestimate the productivity of the groups they work in.

A single dissenter can greatly decrease conformity.

Which of the following is an example of catharsis

Joey's mom wants him to wear his rain boots to school today because it is raining. She nags him several times to take the boots but he argues that he doesn't need them. Finally Joey's mom says "OK, I don't care - don't wear the boots" after which Joey puts the boots on. Before his mom changed her mind, Joey was probably experiencing which of the following

Which alternative best captures the relationships among the concepts of group process losses, social loafing, and groupthink

During which stage of Latané and Darley's model of helping might diffusion of responsibility prevent an emergency victim from receiving aid

Mr. Muller has an unfavorable view of an offshore drilling moratorium enacted in the wake of a major oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. A social psychologist would most likely say that Mr. Muller has a(n):

Markey (2000) found that people received help more quickly from the other members of an Internet users' group when they specified a recipient's name than when they did not. Which alternative correctly names and identifies the variables in this study