Exam 12: Social Psychology

The most important situational variable in altruism is the __________.

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 students suggest as the most appropriate?

Your neighbor, a social worker, asks you if you would volunteer to counsel delinquent youths at a detention center for a year. When you refuse, she asks you if you could supervise the youths during a trip to the zoo. Your neighbor is using the __________ technique.

The classic Robber's Cave study showed that prejudice can be reduced by which of the following?

Which statement BEST describes an important finding of Milgram's classic research?

How does the jigsaw classroom operate?

Erik likes to spend time in a Facebook group devoted to a specific hobby. He looks for ways to irritate other members, posting inflammatory comments and "trolling" the group. He does so because he knows that nobody will ever really identify him, since he uses a fake name online. The fact that he can reduce a sense of personal responsibility by hiding his identity is what social psychologists call __________.

In the Milgram experiment on obedience, the dependent variable was the __________.

"Mommy, mommy, mommy," your young son asks frantically. "Can we please buy a new PlayStation®4 console with all of the games and the wireless controllers so that we don't have to sit near the television?" "No," you reply, "we can't afford to buy all of that!" Seemingly unperturbed by your rejection, your son comes back with "Then can we just buy one new game for our PlayStation®3?" "Okay, I guess so," you answer, not realizing that your precocious son has taken a social psychology class and has just used the __________ technique to get what he wants.

Which term does the text use to refer to a set of characteristics believed to be shared by all members of a particular group?

Changing one's behavior in response to real or perceived social pressures is referred to as __________ by social psychologists.

When members of a group give priority to the cohesiveness of the group over the facts of a situation, they are engaging in what social psychologists call __________.

The fundamental attribution error refers to people's tendency to __________.

Car salespersons are notorious for using the __________ technique, which involves changing terms after an agreement has been made.

The obedience study conducted by Stanley Milgram has become world famous. More than 1,000 people at several American universities went through replications of the study. In addition, researchers in other countries, such as Spain and the Netherlands, have used Milgram's procedures. Explain in detail the procedures that Milgram used in his study, and then discuss his results. What conclusions did Milgram reach? How have critics reacted to his research?

Groupthink can be avoided by __________.

The realistic conflict theory focuses on conflict __________.

Naïve subjects in the Stanley Milgram experiment were given the opportunity to administer shocks to helpless victims. What was the maximum voltage that could be administered in one shock?

If behavior is assumed to be caused by external characteristics, this is known as __________.

Lee wants to reduce groupthink among her team members. Which of the following should she avoid?